Thanks Ronni
Contrary to the blurb I can not see it at the App store. I now have a copy
downloaded. Thanks Peter and Ronni
Severin
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> On 14 Apr 2017, at 17:27, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Severin,
>
> PdfCompress purchase at the link Peter H supplied in his reply below.
> <http://www.metaobject.com/Products/ <http://www.metaobject.com/Products/>>
>
> Purchase
>
> Licenses are available via our products pages at
> <http://www.metaobject.com/Products/
> <http://www.metaobject.com/Products/>>and cost US $35 per copy, and on the
> Mac App Store. Quantity discounts and site licenses, are available, please
> contact us.
>
> Until licensed, PdfCompress will replace some of the images it finds with the
> PdfCompress icon. This can lead to apparent compression that is greater than
> the licensed product, so please request a free trial license via the
> licensing panel if you are unsure.
>
> NOTE:
> Using PDF Services (only non AppStore version)
>
> Alternatively, you can use PDF Services from the print panel. To enable PDF
> Services, select "Add PDF Services" in the "Extras" menu and then log out and
> back in again. This menu option creates a folder called "PDF Services" in
> the "Library" folder of your home folder and copies two files into that
> folder.
>
> Apple has not allowed PdfCompress with the PDF Workflow feature in the Mac
> App Store.
>
> Happy Easter
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
>> On 14 Apr 2017, at 1:53 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Which PDF Compress is that Ronni. There are several in the App Store and
>> others on the internet.
>> Enjoy Easter, hopefully in pleasant sunshine like we have!
>> Severin
>>
>>> On 14 Apr 2017, at 11:40 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OMG Peter H,
>>> I completely forgot about PDFCompress, I've have it on all my Macs and had
>>> used it for years to compress large PDFs of mine, but have not needed to
>>> use it for some time, so had forgotten how good it is ;-))
>>>
>>> Yes well worth the purchase price!
>>>
>>> Happy Easter
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Apr 2017, at 11:11 am, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another option I’ve used to great effect for many years is PDFCompress.
>>>> I’ve been using it since the old MacOS Classic days, and it works as well
>>>> now as it did then. You can find it at
>>>>
>>>> http://www.metaobject.com/Products/ <http://www.metaobject.com/Products/>
>>>>
>>>> It’s not free, but it’s extremely efficient and fast, and in 99% of cases
>>>> the compressed result is indistinguishable from the original. It does not
>>>> modify the original in anyway, and I’ve had occasions where a PDF many Mb
>>>> is size has been reduced to as many hundred Kb, with, as I say, no
>>>> appreciable loss in quality. I’ve tried many other options over the years,
>>>> but always come back to PDFCompress if I want the best results.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 14 Apr 2017, at 10:39 am, Ronni Brown <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>>
>>>>> You can Reduce File Size in Preview App.
>>>>> Reduce File Size is alluring, but beware if you have images other than
>>>>> photos in your document.
>>>>> When you use Reduce File Size, Preview uses lossy compression to reduce
>>>>> the quality of every image in the document, making non-photos notably
>>>>> fuzzy. Photos see a quality reduction too, but the effects are less
>>>>> noticeable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reduce File Size has improved radically from earlier versions of Preview,
>>>>> which also deleted useful metadata like a PDF’s table of contents.
>>>>> I would suggest you test on a Duplicate of your PDF first, to see if you
>>>>> are happy with the result.
>>>>> Open the PDF, then choose File > Export.
>>>>> Click the Quartz Filter pop-up menu, then choose Reduce File Size.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc33.htm#outputpdfsizereduction
>>>>> <https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc33.htm#outputpdfsizereduction>>
>>>>> In VueScan Output
>>>>> Output | PDF size reduction
>>>>>
>>>>> You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels.
>>>>> For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of
>>>>> pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the
>>>>> average of these 9 pixels.
>>>>>
>>>>> This option will reduce the resolution and size of the file produced.
>>>>> These values will be displayed in the status area at the bottom of the
>>>>> VueScan window.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution
>>>>> of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar
>>>>> noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling. See Input | Number of samples
>>>>> <https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc29.htm#inputnumberofsamples>
>>>>> and Input | Number of passes
>>>>> <https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc29.htm#inputnumberofpasses>.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Ronni
>>>>>
>>>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>>>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>>>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>>>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>>>>
>>>>> macOS Sierra 10.12.4
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13 Apr 2017, at 8:05 pm, Rob Phillips <[email protected]
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Peter.
>>>>>> The Pro version of Adobe Acrobat lets you do this, but you might not
>>>>>> want to pay for this. Maybe the free Acrobat Reader does this...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13/4/17 4:15 pm, Peter Curtis wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I’m using VueScan for some documents which I need to email to another
>>>>>>> person on their phone. I scan as .pdf yet the file sizes are large
>>>>>>> (3.5MB) for a 12 page document. I’ve looked through the settings and
>>>>>>> preferences on ViewScan and can’t see any way of reducing the size. Is
>>>>>>> this size normal for a 12 page document? Is there any way I can reduce
>>>>>>> the size of the .pdf?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>>
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