Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 06:12:27PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > I didn't try it, but it should downsample to printing quality and then > make a new PDF out of it. pdf2ps and ps2pdf might also work. I'll give cups-pdf a try. Thanks. pdf2ps turned it into a 250MB ps file. The ps2pdf turned it in

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:17:13PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I have now figured out how to do it with ghostscript from the command > line (after first failing with the "-r" option). The command is: > > gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDownsampleColorImages=true > -dColorImageResol

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
Jochen Schulz wrote: Florian Kulzer: Unfortunately I do not know if a "naked" CUPS has the same handy pdfwriter with the option to downsample images, and I could not find any command line tool to do this. apt-cache show cups-pdf I didn't try it, but it should downsample to printing quality

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Florian Kulzer: > > Unfortunately I do not know if a "naked" CUPS has the same handy > pdfwriter with the option to downsample images, and I could not find > any command line tool to do this. apt-cache show cups-pdf I didn't try it, but it should downsample to printing quality and then make a ne

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:32:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: If your printer-subsystem offers you a pdfwriter pseudo-printer you can simply open the PDF and print it to a file with appropriate settings to downsample the images to a lower resolution. I have just tried this

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:32:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > If your printer-subsystem offers you a pdfwriter pseudo-printer you can > simply open the PDF and print it to a file with appropriate settings to > downsample the images to a lower resolution. I have just tried this with > KDE's "Pri

Re: PDF with big honkin images

2006-02-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Bill Moseley wrote: I just got a pdf that contains about 125 images. Although the image size is small on the pages, inside the pdf the images are huge: ~$ imgsize 5images-121.ppm width="2286" height="1525" and the resulting pdf file is thus huge. Clearly, they just used some program l