On 8/26/07, Vivek J. Patankar <list307@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have got a large bitmapped pdf file that I would like to reduce in > > size. Any tool for that? > > ps2pdf14, which is part of the ghostscript package, is quite efficient > when it comes to the sizes of the PDFs that it produces when compared to > OpenOffice. A five page document with graphics was saved in PDF with a > size of ~200KB. I found that printing the document to a .ps file and > then converting it using ps2pdf14 created a smaller file (~60KB) with no > apparent loss in quality, at least none that I could see. Thanks, Tim and Vivek. Tried the following: $ pdf2ps myfile.pdf File size limit exceeded $ ls -l myfile.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 psmith psmith 91276820 2007-08-24 23:11 myfile.pdf $ Paul
