[plug] pdf compression

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 04:17:02PM +0800, Brad Hill wrote:
> Does anyone know if there's a linux utility that can open a pdf file,
> compress it's innards and save it back as a pdf file?  (I know this is
> theoretically possible since there's options to use LZW, ZIP, JPEG etc
> compression when writing pdfs)

ps2pdf that comes with Ghostcript should do this "automagically".
It reads PDF input in the same way as Postscript and then produces
outpout of whatever you choose. ps2pdf uses Ghostscript.

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