On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:36:51 +
Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried
> making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't
> have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower
> re
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:56:36AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF "container". It
> is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on
> it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and
> put it back in
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 20:57 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III writes:
> > Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE,
> > dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until
> > the reduction is complete?
>
> Have gs write to a hidden temporar
John A. Sullivan III writes:
> Does anyone know how to change the behavior of gs, Konqueror, KDE,
> dcop, or anything else to ensure the file icon does not appear until
> the reduction is complete?
Have gs write to a hidden temporary file. Rename it when it's done.
Arrange to remove the temporary
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 03:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> So I gave up with Acrobat and used the ghostscript command gs
> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf which
> worked really well and made a small
What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF "container". It
is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on
it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and
put it back in a PDF container.
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:39:59 +, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 11:33:48 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> Other preset modes are "-dPDFSETTINGS=/print" and
>> "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press" which provides higher quality PDF and so, a
>> bigger file size.
>
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer and -dPDFSETTINGS=
On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 11:33:48 +, Camaleón wrote:
> Other preset modes are "-dPDFSETTINGS=/print" and "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press"
> which provides higher quality PDF and so, a bigger file size.
-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer and -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress with Ghostscript 8.62.
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On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 02:42:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> So I tried the above command substituting my pdf file as input.pdf and
> creating a suitable name for output.pdf and then hit return in a
> sheepish ignorant kind of way and amazingly enough it worked. I got a
> pdf file that was m
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:42:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Here is what I did here:
>
> The google search suggestion was to do this:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
(...)
> The info and m
Michael Fothergill:
> Doug:
> > Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably
> > this one) that there are a couple of repos you can get to from
> > Debian that hold proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat.
>
> I have the debian non free mulltimedia link set up in my ap
On Saturday 01 January 2011 05:42:28 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> OK,
>
> Here is what I did here:
>
> The google search suggestion was to do this:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
>
> What is p
>>
>> Suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Michael Fothergill
>>
> Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably this one)
> that there are a couple of repos you can get to from Debian that hold
> proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat. Either scan for
> that info, or maybe some
On 01/01/2011 06:36 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debian folks,
I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried
making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't
have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower
resolution.
But e.g
OK,
Here is what I did here:
The google search suggestion was to do this:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
What is peculiar here is that man gs and info gs find the NOPAUSE
QUIET and BATCH commands or
Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv
depending on the text, images, number of pages, etc. If there are mainly
graphics here, you might look into raster to vector software.
I do not have any recommendations for such software.
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried
> making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't
> have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower
Dear Debian folks,
I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried
making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't
have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower
resolution.
But e.g. adobe acrobat I think has an option in it somewher
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