On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, George N. White III wrote:
For images that will be displayed only at low resolution it may be useful
to downsample the original image to reduce the size. For example you
might have a 2 inch by 2 inch image scanned at 400 dpi. This image would
have 800x800 pixels.
Having checked the pdfTeX documentation, doesn't the internal parameter
\pdfcompresslevel deal with this? The documentation says:
compress level This integer parameter specifies the level of text and
in-line graphics compression. pdfTEX uses zip compression as provided by
zlib. A value of 0 means