====== Change PDF image quality with gs ====== Compress images in a pdf using ghostscript (gs) gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/### -sOutputFile=compressed.pdf input.pdf Where PDFSETTINGS can be set to /screen ("Screen Optimized" - 72 dpi images) /ebook ("eBook" - 150 dpi images) /printer ("Print Optimized" - 300 dpi images) /prepress ("Prepress Optimized" - color preserving, 300 dpi imgs) /default (useful across a wide variety of uses) Rule of thumb: ebook is ok for optimizing most documents, screen for texts with non-significant images, printer for high-quality files.