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labbe5 · Joined: 13 Nov 2013 Posts: 1476 Location: Canada

To get your copy of Densify : https://github.com/hkdb/Densify/releases

Use of a Dog OS is recommended to follow this tutorial.

Tutorial : https://is.gd/YuIDUP

Related app :
Discover pdfmixtool :
Split, Merge, and Mix PDF files.

There is a snap package.

disciple · Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2018, 21:18 Post subject:

Presumably this is really just good for scanned pdfs, or perhaps pdfs with lots of pictures?

For normal text/vector pdfs I haven't found a way to match the file sizes produced by PDFsam's compression option; not sure exactly how it achieves them!

8Geee · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 1716 Location: N.E. USA

Well, I don't see much use for it unless one has to incorporate hi-rez pix in the file, and then shrink it to a manageable file-size. But one still keeps the original copy.

And not for nothin' Most Offices that make pdf file-copies have a GUI box/tabs to configure the output like jpg compression, print dpi, etc. So is this for the NoRTM types that abound?

Example: I have a 3-Page document file with 2 spreadsheet tables in it. The 'Office size' is 133Kb. The Office has a pdf interface, so I compress jpg's to 75% and set dpi to 150 (My screen rez on this notebook is 133 dpi (0.19mm)... most monitors are 0.25mm best (100dpi)). The pdf version of this Office file is 18Kb. Ummm, thats compression also. For these correspondence-sized docs, well, its not useful. 700 Page novel... yes, full presentations yes. But you keep the original anyway.

Regards
8Geee