howto:compress-pdf
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Compress PDF
Command Line Utilities to Reduce PDF File Size in Linux
Using GhostScript
sudo apt install ghostscript
You can use this command to compress PDFs. Replace output.pdf/input.pdf and the PDFSETTINGS as required.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
| -dPDFSETTINGS Option | Description |
|---|---|
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen | 72 dpi |
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook | 150 dpi |
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress | 300 dpi |
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer | 300 dpi |
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/default | Multi purpose output PDF. |
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