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 <
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> 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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