When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
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Working with PDFs in Ubuntu
Ubuntu is by far the best operating system in existence. One of the things that hasn’t been broadcast around much is how Ubuntu is also awesome for business. If you run a business (or work in one) you will know that PDF files are one of the most standard documents that you work with, or would like to work with. …