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Compress PDF files in linux. #pdf #linux #compress From http://askubuntu.com/questions/113544/how-to-reduce-pdf-filesize
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compress-pdf.sh
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
#Leave out the '-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen' setting for better quality, but slightly larger pdfs.
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