NAME

Compress::PDF - Provides PDF compression binary executables compress-pdf and its alias pdf-compress

SYNOPSIS

use Compress::PDF

In your terminal window:

$ compress-pdf calendar.pdf
# OUTPUT
Input file: calendar.pdf
  Size: 2.9M
Compressed output file: calendar-150dpi.pdf
  Size: 247.7K

DESCRIPTION

Compress::PDF requires a system utitlity program: 'ps2pdf'. On Debian systems it can be installed by executing sudo aptitude install ps2pdf.

Installing this module results in one primary and two aliased Raku PDF compression programs:

• compress-pdf

• pdf-compress #= aliased to compress-pdf

Executing either name without input arguments results in:

Usage: compress-pdf <pdf file> [..options...]

Without options, compresses the input PDF file to the
  default 150 dpi.

The input file is not modified, and the output file is
  named as the input file with the extension '.pdf'
  replaced by '-NNNdpi.pdf' where 'NNN' is the selected
  value of '150' (the default) or '300'.

Options:
    dpi=X - where X is the PDF compression level: '150' or '300' DPI.

AUTHOR

Tom Browder <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

© 2024 Tom Browder

This library is free software; you may redistribute it or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.