Max OS-X: Shrink PDF files in the Finder
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- Published: Sunday, 05 May 2013 00:00
Today I finally got around to use Automator, and make one of the command line scripts I have been running for ages a little easier to use.
The problem I have been trying to solve is the fact that the PDF files that a Mac creates are normally of very high quality and hence large. If you just want to send someone a document for reading on screen, a much smaller PDF file would do. The open source package “ghostscript” has a tool called ps2pdf that can be (ab)used to adjust the size of components for PDF files. I installed this in /opt/local/bin using the “macports” software.
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