Currently, when I need to reduce the size of a PDF file I use ghostscript
in a CLI command like this (with some variances when I'm working with images):
$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=new.pdf old.pdf
This command works like a charm, but I'd like to know if exists any GUI tool for the same purpose that works on Ubuntu.
Some cool requirements (not mandatory):
- Select specific pages (with images, for example) to ignore in the reduce. The intention is to prevent a reduction in image resolution when this can make them unreadable;
- Specify a desired range for the file size;
- Free and Open Source is a plus;