A Lazy Developer's Guide to Reducing PDF Size

Created on 2023-01-10T15:23:31-06:00

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-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen lower quality, smaller size (72 dpi)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook better quality, larger size (150 dpi)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress same as Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting (300 dpi)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer same as Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting (300 dpi)
-dPDFSETTINGS=/default useful across a wide variety of uses, which may result in a larger output file
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=