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HOWTO lossy compress PDF files in Linux

Submitted by develCuy on Fri, 2012-05-18 12:41

Image Magick is an awesome tool that also does a great work compressing PDF files.

Just run the following command:

$ convert -compress jpeg -density 150 file.pdf file-compressed.pdf

Notice that -compress is the compression type, and -density is the image quality. Also, JPEG compression is lossy, and reduction of DPI usually is lossy. But I managed to have good compression quality with these settings.

There are more details in the Image Magick manual.

Blessings!

I think the title is not

Submitted by Lazza (not verified) on Wed, 2012-06-06 03:31.

I think the title is not correct: Jpeg compression is lossy. Also, the reduction of DPI usually is lossy.

Thanks for your feedback,

Submitted by develCuy on Wed, 2012-06-06 12:27.

Thanks for your feedback, blog post updated!

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