Re^2: Shrink Images and PDFs

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For your PDF files, what does gs do or not do which reduce the PDF file size? Is it mainly ebook option?

Yes, I've found the ebook option a convenient way to downsample the resolution of the images embedded in a PDF to 150 DPI. So this script will have a significant effect on PDF files that are large due to them containing high-resolution images (like scans), and less of an effect on PDFs that are already smaller than ~1MB.

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Re^3: Shrink Images and PDFs by parv (Parson) on May 02, 2020 at 13:02 UTC
Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation, mainly because I had not thought of embedded images. I was thinking that `ebook` option might be restructuring the PDF, using common fonts and removing embedded fonts, etc.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Shrink Images and PDFs by haukex (Archbishop) on May 02, 2020 at 14:47 UTC
I was thinking that `ebook` option might be restructuring the PDF, using common fonts and removing embedded fonts, etc. One of the settings of the `ebook` profile is `EmbedAllFonts=true`, so I might consider disabling that, but other than that I haven't noticed the `gs` command modifying anything about the PDFs other than the images.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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