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#PDF SIZE REDUCER MAC MAC OS X#
#PDF SIZE REDUCER MAC PDF#

Thanks to the good people on this forum for pointing out this handy technique.

#PDF SIZE REDUCER MAC MAC OS X#

I looked around and found various open source programs that would do the same thing but the quartz filter mechanism built into Mac OS X works perfectly and requires no extra software.

#PDF SIZE REDUCER MAC PDF#

The document scanner I have (Canon MP830) is neat because it has an automatic document feeder and the ability to turn a big document into a PDF on my desktop by pushing a single button, but for whatever reason the lowest resolution setting still produces these massive files. This has been helpful in shrinking down PDF’s that come out of my scanner. Choose the File > Save As option and on the save dialogue apply the quartz filter you just set up. There is no need to install any software, and what you only need to do is to drop your PDF file in the box and start the compression. With the most advanced technology, this large PDF compressor is capable of compressing PDFs at super-high speed.

Now close out of the colorsync utility and open up one of your bloated PDFs. This PDF file size reducer makes it easy and fast to minimize your PDF files.

You’ll want to bump up the quality a bit from the default on that preset- I found the following settings to be about right to achieve a 1/6th reduction in file size while preserving readability:.

Open your Colorsync Utility, click on the “Filters” tab and duplicate the one called “Reduce File Size.”.

The key is to re-save the PDF applying a quartz filter to compress the images.

It was able to convert a 5MB PDF down to 800k while maintaining perfectly readable quality. Here’s a simple method I recently discovered for shrinking the size of PDF’s on a Mac.