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March 03, 2011
How to compress pdfs in Ubuntu
Option 1:
Install pdftk
$ sudo apt-get install pdftk
Compression command.
$ pdftk output.pdf output final.pdf compress
- Noticed no difference if file size.
Option 2:
Take the file to .ps and back to .pdf:
$ pdf2ps input.pdf output.ps
$ ps2pdf output.ps output.pdf
- This approach threw an error because my input.pdf was malformed.
Option 3:
Reprint the pdf with Okular
$ okular input.pdf
Print > Print to File (pdf)
Options > PDF Options > Force rasterization
This reduced the file form 18 mb to 6.1 mb where the previous options failed. I retried Option 1 and 2 after this step and no change in size was observed.
Option 4:
I also had success with opening the following, which is the GUI version of Option 2:
Open large_input.pdf in Okular (or Evince) > Print as large_output.ps
Open large_ouput.ps in Okular (or Evince) > Print as small_output.pdf
Posted by kkwaiser at March 3, 2011 02:31 PM