On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:50:58 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek <bartek047@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks very much! Good point. The trouble is that my pdf > > file is 12 MB > > long. The website for a journal will only accept 6MB. There > > are all > > these sites (Manuscript Central, EES, etc) which take a > > huge pdf file > > (such as 25 MB) lets say and convert it to something very > > small (such > > as 2 or 3 MB, lets say) so that it can go for peer review > > and they have > > to be using some conversion program. I was thinking that it > > is > > pdftopdf. But maybe not. > > Thanks for the clarification, but I'm not aware of any native Linux utilities that do exactly what you want. > > > Any suggestions? > > Try pdftk, PDF Toolkit, or pdf-tools. There are a lot of other 'yum info pdf*' or *pdf listings. > > Also, does your journal site accept zipped files? Since pdf is mostly plain text, zipping them can reduce their size considerably without changing the content. Thanks again, Patrick! I will try this. The journal site (Electronic Journal Management System or some such) accepts nothing but a single pdf file. I have sent an e-mail to the "E-mail contact" but have not heard back yet. Best wishes, Ranjan > B > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
