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How to reduce the size of a pdf file

Use libreoffice

Open the file with libreoffice. Then export it as pdf with low resolution to reduce the file size.

Use ghostscript

You can use the command gs to call ghostscript. ghostscript is a PostScript, and PDF language interpreter and previewer.

Let's try to reduce the size of the "cvjb.pdf" and then write it as "output.pdf"

  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf cvjb.pdf

References

Check the manual:

  man gs