Clearly, when I wrote that gs -q -dNODISPLAY --pdfopt.ps resume.pdf opt.pdf seems to go much closer to working than gs -q -dNODISPLAY -- pdfopt.ps resume.pdf opt.pdf I was talking nonsense. gs just ignores pdfopt.ps altogether. The second syntax did work for me once with a two word pdf file. Can anyone get pdfopt to work? Bob Howlett