Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-28 Thread Alan Evans
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > But I was wondering if there is an open source way to achieve the same > result in Fedora? > > I've used ghostscript to "optimize" some very large PDF documents. Maybe not exactly what you want, but it worked pretty well in my case, thus: gs

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/28/2012 04:23 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote: I have occasionally found that converting to postscript and then back to pdf will result in a smaller file size, particularly when there are images involved. You probably don't need to change the format. ps2pdf is just a shell script that runs gs

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-28 Thread Robyn Bergeron
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/27/2012 06:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. >> > > As others have noted, your ability to do so depends on the specifics of > your file, which you haven't shared. > > You could use g

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/27/2012 06:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. As others have noted, your ability to do so depends on the specifics of your file, which you haven't shared. You could use ghostscript to reduce quality (resolution) and size: http://www.ubuntuge

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 16:10:22 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.12.2012 16:05, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. Apparently, I may be able to use Adobe Acrobat Professsional t

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:41:17 -0500 Bill Davidsen wrote: > agraham wrote: > > Assuming you have source file(s) that are not already PDF, use Open Office > > and > > export it as PDF at which point you have all the scaling/compression options > > available. > > > The way to get a smaller file is n

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. >... You don't give enough details to help much, so I'll ask some questions. 1. Is the content all text? 2. What tool created it? 3. Are there images in the PDF? 4. How much compre

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:17:56 -0600 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF#compress-newsletter.pl -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS o

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
agraham wrote: Assuming you have source file(s) that are not already PDF, use Open Office and export it as PDF at which point you have all the scaling/compression options available. The way to get a smaller file is not to compress what you have, but to generate smaller PDF in the first place. U

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:05:12 -0600 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, >Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. Apparently, I may > >be able to use Adobe Acrobat Professsional to do this: > > > >http://www.adobe.com/

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread agraham
Assuming you have source file(s) that are not already PDF, use Open Office and export it as PDF at which point you have all the scaling/compression options available. On 12/27/2012 03:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I need to re

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.12.2012 16:05, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, > Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. Apparently, I may >> be able to use Adobe Acrobat Professsional to do this: >> >> http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-ar

Re: reducing PDF file size in Fedora

2012-12-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. Apparently, I may be able to use Adobe Acrobat Professsional to do this: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/acrobat/articles/acr7optimize/acr7optimize.pdf But I was wo