Reducing files size of PDFs
Have Ghostscript installed, and then
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=compressed_output.pdf input.pdf
The possible -dPDFSETTINGS
are:
/screen
selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting./ebook
selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting./printer
selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting./prepress
selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting./default
selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file.
The web-based service https://smallpdf.com/ works also well, but is of course not suitable for privacy-sensitive documents.