On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 23:36:51 +
Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com 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
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 a
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 temporary file.
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 03:05 +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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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
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 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 peculiar
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 apt
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 man
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 much
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 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=/prepress
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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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
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
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.
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
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
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 someone will
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