How To Reduce the Size of a PDF Using Ghostscript

Author: , February 4th, 2017

Make sure you have Ghostscript installed, then:

-dPDFSETTINGS={value} where {value} is one of: /screen – the lowest resolution and lowest file size, fine for viewing on a screen /ebook – mid-range resolution and file size /printer – high-quality setting used for printing PDFs /prepress – high-quality setting used for printing PDFs As always, YMMV…