I seem to get into this more often than I need to. I was preparing a report this weekend that grew to ~500 pages and 80 MB in size. I wanted to transmit the report as a .pdf via email. Using services like OneDrive work, but they are annoying when they require an external user to verify who they are. I also tried reducing the file size with a few other options, including:<\/p>\n
None of the options above produced a small enough .pdf file or at least not one that was less than 50 MB. Finally I turned to Ghostscript, but first I had to install and configure it:<\/p>\n
1. Open Terminal.app and enter: The above-command produced a file about 38 MB and I was able to get it down to 36 MB using the following command:<\/p>\n I found these references helpful in developing this approach: I seem to get into this more often than I need to. I was preparing a report this weekend that grew to ~500 pages and 80 MB in size. I wanted to transmit the report as a .pdf via email. … Continue reading brew install ghostscript<\/code>
\n2. After Ghostscript installs, use Terminal to navigate to the folder containing your .pdf, in my case: ls ~Desktop<\/code>
\n3. Insert this command into Terminal, replacing input.pdf and output.pdf with the file names you prefer:<\/p>\ngs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=\/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=\"output.pdf\" \"input.pdf\"<\/code><\/p>\ngs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=\/screen -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -dColorImageDownsampleType=\/Bicubic -dColorImageResolution=144 -dGrayImageDownsampleType=\/Bicubic -dGrayImageResolution=144 -dMonoImageDownsampleType=\/Bicubic -dMonoImageResolution=144 -sOutputFile=\"output.pdf\" \"input.pdf\"<\/code><\/p>\n
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\nhttps:\/\/www.cisdem.com\/resource\/shrink-pdf-file-size-on-mac.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"