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LG

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Dec 31, 2009, 5:28:36 PM12/31/09
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I have two questions about pdf files:

I want a freeware that really deminish the size of the pdf file with good
quality.

The second: can you make your own register for the chapters in the pdf like
letters in a lexicon. I know there are pages at the left but I can not see
so much in those pages that I can use it.

I want to have some link to the letter of L, for example (think of a
lexicon).

You can answer to one of the questions if you have an answer of that.

Thak you in advance.

LG

LG


Engineer@pnb.retired_1987 Don Schmidt

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Dec 31, 2009, 6:35:18 PM12/31/09
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Many folks like the free Primopdf.

www.primopdf.com

If you ever consider a modestly priced pdf creator and an outstanding
viewer, visit,

http://files.docu-track.com/FeatureChartEU.pdf


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LG

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Jan 1, 2010, 2:59:18 PM1/1/10
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I meant that I already have a pdf file that is big. I want some freeware to
make that already done pdf file smaller.

LG

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Engineer@pnb.retired_1987 Don Schmidt

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Jan 1, 2010, 6:03:48 PM1/1/10
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Try this:

Select Start, Settings, Printers and Faxes,

Right click on your pdf creating printer, Properties

Select Printing Preferences

Lower the Resolution setting

OK

Now open the pdf file, select print and recreate the pdf file.


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Peter Flynn

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Jan 2, 2010, 6:39:50 AM1/2/10
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LG wrote:
> I have two questions about pdf files:
>
> I want a freeware that really deminish the size of the pdf file with good
> quality.

I would like a spell that turns lead into gold...

///Peter

LG

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Jan 2, 2010, 1:43:56 PM1/2/10
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What do you mean Peter Flynn?

Perhaps you mean that this is impossible. But I mean that I want the quality
to as good as possible with little size of the pdf-file.

LG


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Peter Flynn

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Jan 2, 2010, 5:16:40 PM1/2/10
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LG wrote:
> What do you mean Peter Flynn?
>
> Perhaps you mean that this is impossible. But I mean that I want the quality
> to as good as possible with little size of the pdf-file.

I'm sorry -- post-new-year sarcasm was probably inappropriate :-)

If you have used a decent PDF-generator, then you will already have been
given the opportunity to adjust the size-vs-quality setting. You can't
do anything more than that.

If you were not the creator, or if you were using software that does not
permit optimisation of the size-vs-quality setting, then you need to go
back to the source document (Word, TeX, OpenOffice, whatever) and
recreate the PDF with better software, or use images with lower
resolution or harder compression.

Otherwise you may need to buy some PDF-editing software, or perhaps try
pdfedit (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html -- I don't know if it
can do this, though).

If you do not have access to the original master document, you're
probably stuck.

///Peter

Lutrin

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Jan 2, 2010, 5:42:12 PM1/2/10
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:28:36 +0000, LG ci disse:

> I want a freeware that really deminish the size of the pdf file with
> good quality

[...]
this goal can be achieved by using ghostscript

- First case: if your PDF has only vector text and no images, and you have
used only black, but colorspace of your pdf is RGB, you can save a lot of
space turning your pdf from RGB into gray

gs -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=output.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 input.pdf < /dev/null

- 2° case: if your PDF has images and you can't turn these to gray, use
FLATE encoding to trying compress PDF

gs -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=output.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dUseFlateCompression=true -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 input.pdf < /dev/null

if any of these two ways is successiful, you can try to compress your
PDF using the power of

*Multivalent*
- http://www.ziddu.com/downloadlink/1794145/Multivalent.tar.gz

with Compress tool

usage:

java -cp /path..to/multivalent.jar tool.pdf.Compress -jpeg input.pdf

the mighty multivalent has another switch to make a further compression

-compact

but, using -compact option, makes a pdf readable only by multivalent
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