[OS X TeX] Compressing pdf graphics
Guido Mocken
mocken at mpi-hd.mpg.de
Wed May 23 09:50:42 CEST 2007
Am 22.05.2007 um 22:40 schrieb Maarten Sneep:
> pdftk [1] will compress pdf files for you, either the individual
> graphics, or the final (pdflatex) output.
This is definitely the way to go, because it is *lossless*
compression. To be more precise:
pdftk input.pdf output output.pdf compress
I can compress my pdflatex-generated PHD thesis (which contains a lot
of pictures) from 70 MB to just 7 MB this way without any loss of
quality.
Of course, I can achieve the same ratio using gzip or bzip2, but then
the file can no longer be opened directly in a PDF reader.
Guido
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