that gotthem down to about 1/2 the original size
On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> chatgpt showed me how to do it with ghostscript.
> for f in *.pdf;
> do echo "Compressing $f with light compression...";
> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH
> -sOutputFile="${f%.pdf}-light.pdf" "$f"; done
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Do they need to remain PDF files? That will require editing them and
>> effectively altering those settings to reduce their size.
>>
>> Otherwise, you could consider zipping them (specifically using ZIP
>> compression)
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have 4 pdf files that are a maximum of 15 MB. I need them to be 4 MB.
>>> HOw can I do it, please?
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