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PDF Gray Scale Size reduction (~6.5Mb to 0.8Mb)
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| # https://superuser.com/questions/104656/convert-a-pdf-to-greyscale-on-the-command-line-in-floss/164857#164857 | |
| gs \ | |
| -sOutputFile=output.pdf \ | |
| -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ | |
| -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \ | |
| -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray \ | |
| -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ | |
| -dNOPAUSE \ | |
| -dBATCH \ | |
| input.pdf |
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No quality loss looks very good and much better compared to:
convert -colorspace GRAY color.pdf gray.pdfeven if
-density 400 -quality 100are used, which giving the final size of 5Mb