On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:33 AM Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: > > With the pdf-files from my Canon scanner, I did shrink them with the help of > ghostscript: > > $ ps2pdf old.pdf new.pdf >
This does not help. The file sizes are more or less the same (if anything, they are slightly larger). Original files: % ls -al scanned_in_office.pdf scanned_on_mx870.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 331796 Jan 1 11:54 scanned_in_office.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1775460 Jan 1 11:48 scanned_on_mx870.pdf Conversion: % ps2pdf scanned_in_office.pdf file1.pdf % ps2pdf scanned_on_mx870.pdf file2.pdf New file sizes: % ls -al file1.pdf file2.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 338539 Jan 2 22:48 file1.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1775470 Jan 2 22:48 file2.pdf -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
