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Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF

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From: nospam@nospam.net (Andy Burnelli)
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by: Andy Burnelli - Wed, 1 Mar 2023 19:37 UTC

wasbit wrote:

> On 01/03/2023 04:54, Ant wrote:
>> Andy Burnelli <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>> I just realized "shrink pdf file size" isn't on that list.
>>> It needs to be added.
>>
>>> Anyone know of freeware expressly to shrink PDF file sizes?
>>> [_] Shrink PDF file size (Adobe Acrobat Writer payware)
>>
>> https://reducepdfsize.com/ (old, but works for me)
>>
>
> Thanks.

So that everyone benefits from every bit of new information, we should
probably be cc'ing the comp.text.pdf folks, as they know a lot of this.
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.pdf>
<https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.microsoft.windows>

I just searched the pdf group open archives (and that of the Windows ng).
*Desktop freeware to SHRINK (aka optimize) PDFs*
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.pdf/c/hhcIUdnNgyU/>

Which also came up with this suggestion way back in
*PDF Shrinker*, by John McWilliams
<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/9dPChJVDakk/gnjZ1hWTAwAJ>

Along with a whole bunch of shrinkers, too many for me to test such as
*Compress PDF Files With NXPowerLite*
<https://www.neuxpower.com/compress-pdf/>

*PDF Toolkit - PDF Optimizer - PDF downsampler*
<https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/pdf-toolkit-pdf-optimizer/>

*FileOptimizer*
<https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer>
... and so on ...

There were even command line settings for venerable programs such as
convert -density 200x200 -quality 60 -compress jpeg -resize 50% big.pdf small.pdf
<http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#compress>
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=small.pdf big.pdf

Seems like we need a _new_ listing to be compiled where every time I touch
this freeware pdf modification subject, it mushrooms out of control for me.
--
Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to search for existing articles on pdf shrinkers.

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by: wasbit - Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:44 UTC

On 01/03/2023 19:37, Andy Burnelli wrote:
> wasbit wrote:
>
>> On 01/03/2023 04:54, Ant wrote:
>>> Andy Burnelli <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I just realized "shrink pdf file size" isn't on that list.
>>>> It needs to be added.
>>>
>>>> Anyone know of freeware expressly to shrink PDF file sizes?
>>>> [_] Shrink PDF file size (Adobe Acrobat Writer payware)
>>>
>>> https://reducepdfsize.com/ (old, but works for me)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>

No, I didn't.

Michael Logies posted in alt.comp.os.windows-10
Very popular in germany:
https://www.pdf24.org/

I replied
Nice programme. I've used it for several years instead of PDF-Exchange &
PDF Creator because it does so much in one small programme.
Both PDF24 & PDF Creator have compression options

- https://www.pdf24.org/
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

--
Regards
wasbit

Subject	Author
Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF	Andy Burnelli
Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF	wasbit