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SHRINKPDF(1) General Commands Manual SHRINKPDF(1) NAME shrinkpdf -- A simple wrapper around Ghostscript to reduce the file size of PDFs SYNOPSIS shrinkpdf [-gh] [-o outfile] [-r res] infile DESCRIPTION Inspired by some code found in an OpenOffice Python script, shrinkpdf feeds a PDF through Ghostscript, which performs lossy recompression by such methods as downsampling the images to a lower resolution. The re- sult should be (but not always is) a much smaller file. The following options are available: -g Enable grayscale conversion which can further reduce output size. -h Show help screen. -o outfile Output file, default is standard output. -r res Resolution in DPI, default is 72. If both [infile] and [outfile] are regular files, the script checks if the shrunk output file is actually smaller than the input file. If it is not, it writes a message to stderr and copies the input to output. EXAMPLES Reduce PDF resolution to 72 dpi: $ shrinkpdf myfile.pdf >myfile-72dpi.pdf Reduce PDF resolution to 300 dpi: $ shrinkpdf -r 300 myfile.pdf >myfile-300dpi.pdf Reduce PDF resolution to 150 dpi, specify [outfile]: $ shrinkpdf -o myfile-150dpi.pdf -r 150 myfile.pdf SEE ALSO gs(1) AUTHORS shrinkpdf was written by Alfred Klomp. This manual page was written by Michael Gmelin <grembo@FreeBSD.org> based on content written by Alfred Klomp. FreeBSD ports 15.0 July 13, 2022 SHRINKPDF(1)
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