Compress Pdf Command Line | FDUCAT Notebook

Compress PDF offline with ghostscript #

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I found this great tool to compress pdf (python script) from the command line.

Requirements #

Python #

Check your python version

➜  ~ python --version
Python 3.8.9

Ghoscript #

Check your ghoscript version

➜  ~ gs
GPL Ghostscript 10.0.0 (2022-09-21)

How to #

Add this command in your .bash_profile or .zshrc file

Setup #

# Usage: spdf [input file] [output file] [screen*|ebook|printer|prepress]
spdf() {
    gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -dPDFSETTINGS=/${3:-"screen"} -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile="$2" "$1"
}

Usage #

spdf BigFile.pdf SmallFile.pdf ebook