[texhax] [FORGED] Re: Smaller image-heavy pdf

[Rolf Turner]

On 11/25/18 12:37 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2018-11-25 at 08:37:34 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
>   >
>   > On 11/25/18 7:26 AM, Peter Wilson wrote:
>   >
>   > > Dan
>   > >
>   > > Have you tried:    > ps2pdf in.pdf out.pdf
>   > >
>   > > which has given me file size reductions of about 75%
>   >
>   > Now *that* is a trick worth knowing about!  Would not have thought of
>   > trying that in a million years.  Counterintuitive, but simple once
>   > you've been told.  Did one little experiment just now, on an arbitrary
>   > pdf file and got a 55% reduction in size, just like that!
> 
> Are you sure that this conversion is lossless?

No, of *course* I'm not sure!!! :-)

However it *looks* OK (to my not-overly-sensitive eye) in the single 
example that I have tried.

cheers,

Rolf

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