General ⇒ compress pdf, reduce graphics size selectively

[Zem]

Is there an easy way to generate pdf output with different compression settings?
Such as a pdflatex switch or a tool to recompress the resulting pdf?

- One version with highest-dpi, non-lossy images where size does not matter.
- And one version with lower-dpi downsampled images with stronger lossy compression.

I could of course create different versions of the embedded images for each version, but that would get confusing quick, and it is hard to get the same dpi settings for various images embedded with size=1\textwidth

I am using texniccenter with miktex and pdflatex on windows.

I think I already embedded every vector graphic as eps/pdf where applicable. The remaining images have to be pixel graphics.

[localghost]

The only idea that comes to me is to give a compress level in the preamble.

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\pdfcompresslevel=n   % n=1,...,9

I don't know in which way this affects the pixel based images.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Zem]

Thanks, but according to what I found, I already use the maximum level, since it is set by hyperref.
Also, it is only lossless compression without any change in appearance, so savings are rather low.