Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ How to reduce file size of PDF output while compile with pdflatex

[byn]

I am using pdflatex to compile on a windows system and I wonder how the file size can be reduced while compiling with pdflatex

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

try Joseph's suggestion here: make PDF file size smaller.

Stefan

[byn]

Hi Stefan,

I run the code

\pdfminorversion=5
\pdfcompresslevel=9
\pdfobjcompresslevel=2

but i didn't notice any difference, is there a workaround script?

Byn.

[byn]

Does anyone know how to use ghostscript to compress a file on a windows system.

I found an answer here saying it is works but dont know how to invoke it?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions ... is-too-big which works for pdflatex but on a unix system.

Script is here

gswin64c -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dQUIET -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o "out.pdf" "in.pdf"

code snippet.

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Byn

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Byn,

that should be done the command line aka command prompt: Windows Startmenu, Search, type cmd. Or search for the command line application.

And it has to be done within the document folder aka directory. If needed, use the cd command to change into that directory.

Stefan

[byn]

The code, doesn't seem to work for me, see error log below,

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Have you had a try on it Stefan?

[rais]

Does anyone know how to use ghostscript to compress a file on a windows system.

I found an answer here saying it is works but dont know how to invoke it?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions ... is-too-big which works for pdflatex but on a unix system.

Whatever let you draw that conclusion? The very name "gswin64c" suggests a binary compiled for usage under M$ Windows. Under Unix and Unix-like platforms it's called "gs".
At the end of the Invoking Ghostscript section you'll find a brief overview for the different names on different platforms.

The code, doesn't seem to work for me, see error log below, [..]

bash? That sounds more like Unix than M$ Windows...try gs instead of gswin64c.

KR
Rainer

[byn]

Rais,

Thank you, I tried it but it returned an error below;

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my template is here; https://drive.google.com/file/d/17UKBW9 ... cjNa6/view

Could you demonstrate it with my template it would be easier if I can run it while compiling, I am using TeX live though I have a cygwin installation on windows.

[rais]

Well, you just need to replace "in.pdf" with the file you created with pdflatex and I'd suggest a different name for the result instead of "out.pdf", too, e.g.,

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gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dQUIET -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o main-template-reduced.pdf main-template.pdf

that created a pdf with 132K out of your 293K

KR
Rainer

[byn]

Rais,

Still getting an error of unbalanced dictionary, below, how do you resolve this?

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