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| Gearfuze | Is anyone on for troubleshooting help? | 17:37.29 |
| ray_laptop_ | Gearfuze: yep | 17:37.51 |
| Gearfuze | I am looking for an example pdf compression command because I am having trouble getting one to work | 17:39.00 |
| | I am using Powershell to do so | 17:39.09 |
| ray_laptop | Gearfuze: so, you have a PDF and you want to make it smaller? | 17:39.55 |
| | Gearfuze: IDK what Powershell is | 17:40.26 |
| Robin_Watts | Powershell = Windows command window++ | 17:40.47 |
| Gearfuze | yes i have a 30MB pdf when I put it through smallpdf.com it makes it 347KB so I want to do that on a script level | 17:40.55 |
| ray_laptop | Gearfuze: OK, yeah, I just googled it | 17:40.59 |
| Robin_Watts | (well, it's CMD++, rather than the window++, but...) | 17:41.08 |
| ray_laptop | what is smallpdf.com ? | 17:41.16 |
| Gearfuze | online pdf compression | 17:41.24 |
| ray_laptop | Gearfuze: but as to what's in it, I can't tell | 17:42.37 |
| Gearfuze | yeah I understand that however I figure if I could get the pdf down in size with ghostscript then it should be ok | 17:43.20 |
| ray_laptop | Gearfuze: ah, I see "We have partnered with PDF Tools Inc. from Switzerland " | 17:43.46 |
| | Gearfuze: without seeing the original and the "compressed" PDF, it's hard to tell. to get that much reduction, they've probably reduced the resolution of images, (at loss of quality -- gs can do that) and maybe pulled out embedded fonts (gs doesn't do that since we don't recommend it) | 17:45.20 |
| Gearfuze | well I am ok with anything that ghostscript can do | 17:45.46 |
| | if it helps it helps | 17:45.53 |
| ray_laptop | but it's most likely image size reduction, since 30Mb is certainly not fonts. | 17:45.58 |
| | Gearfuze: Please open a bug and put the input and smallpdf.com output files on the bug -- tag it as "Enhancement" with a subject like "Can ghostscript reduce a PDF file size similar to smallpdf" | 17:47.12 |
| | Gearfuze: or, you can look at the documentation and try some of the "distillerparams" yourself with pdfwrite. See: https://ghostscript.com/doc/current/VectorDevices.htm#PDFWRITE | 17:48.25 |
| | I have to run, but if I see a bug, I'll have a look (and at least tell you what smallpdf.com did) | 17:48.56 |
| Gearfuze | Ray_laptop thanks for the help I looked into the image that was being placed into the pdf and it was 12MB!!!!!! you helped me without even knowing lol I just ran it and its now 1.57 which is good enough for me | 17:51.52 |
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