[pdftex] PDF howto minimaze size

[John Culleton]

On Friday 07 November 2008 03:53:38 pm Francisco Chaves wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using LaTeX for a project with the Colombian goverment and I
> have a request to generate PDF's files with a maximum size of 25Kb.
> I have done many trials but I have sizes bet't ween 31Kb to 37Kb.
>
> I have reduced the size of images that I use, and I understand that
> PDF LaTeX is compressing the PDF  by default to the maximum, but I
> doesn't .
>
> What can I do in order to reduce the size of my documents to the
> required size?
>
> Attached, some examples of the files that I have.
>
> Thanks in advance,

There is a Perl program compress-newsletter.pl that will reduce the 
size of pdf files significantly, However advanced features such as 
bookmarks and anchors are eliminated also.  Here is the url:

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF

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