Is there Windows freeware that will batch shrink a set of PDF files (w/o
changing the number of files)?

This is a followup on a previous thread where we found PDFsam freeware
useful to split a single PDF file into multiple smaller PDF files; but we
found it necessity to use Adobe Acrobat Professional to shrink those files
(because PDFsam's size-target is plus or minus too large an amount).

The use model would be two steps:
1. Split a large PDF into multiple smaller PDFs (around 1000KB each, plus
or minus a huge 25% though)
2. Then compress any files that were higher than 1,000KB down to 1,000KB or
lower (if possible) in batch mode

Currently this is done with:
1. PDFSam freeware 
2. Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional payware

The goal is to find a batch PDF compression utility that will take the
place of the manual Adobe Acrobat PDF compression capabilities.

In article <10cd6313f1ca35cc02552441d8c8d304@tioat.net>, 
zappajNOSPAM@Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid says...
> 
> Is there Windows freeware that will batch shrink a set of PDF files (w/o
> changing the number of files)?
> 

Little OT: 

in case of scanned documents, 
great free option is DjvuSolo (Google), 
using too little appreciated djvu format.

About 350 page book, 
scanned to per double page images,
results to 1.5 MB djvu file.
( about 2-2,5 bytes per character even without OCR )

It can be hold either compact, either per page,
browser plugins available.


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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:31:12 +0000, Judy Zappacosta ci disse:

> Is there Windows freeware that will batch shrink a set of PDF files (w/o
> changing the number of files)?
[...]

*Multivalent PDF*
- http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/index.html
- http://bit.ly/bYJ906 (download here, sourceforge has removed a 
multivalent version with tools inside)

usage: (need java you already have)

java -cp path to... multivalent.jar tool.pdf.Compress filetocompress.pdf

for batch operations, use wildcard *

java -cp path to... multivalent.jar tool.pdf.Compress *.pdf

note that command is case-sensitive (so write Compress and not compress)
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:16:59 GMT, Lutrin wrote:

>> Is there Windows freeware that will batch shrink a set of PDF files (w/o
>> changing the number of files)?
> 
> *Multivalent PDF*
> - http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/index.html
> - http://bit.ly/bYJ906 (download here, sourceforge has removed a 
> multivalent version with tools inside)

You know your PDF!

Will try!

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:52:38 +0530, poutnik <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> In article <10cd6313f1ca35cc02552441d8c8d304@tioat.net>,
> zappajNOSPAM@Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid says...
>>
>> Is there Windows freeware that will batch shrink a set of PDF files (w/o
>> changing the number of files)?
>>
>
> Little OT:
>
> in case of scanned documents,
> great free option is DjvuSolo (Google),
> using too little appreciated djvu format.
>
> About 350 page book,
> scanned to per double page images,
> results to 1.5 MB djvu file.
> ( about 2-2,5 bytes per character even without OCR )
>
> It can be hold either compact, either per page,
> browser plugins available.
>
>

djvu is interesting, never knew this format! http://djvu.org/ is a nice  
site know it in detail, with links to samples.

Just converted a 1028kb TIFF to a 326kb .djvu through the free online  
converter <http://djvu.org/any2djvu/> ! PDF of the same file is similar to  
TIFF in size. Last year I a lot of scanning into TIFF, and this surely  
would have reduced file sizes.

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In article <op.vfilbei38w9ny9@jok2p1>, mohan@discuss.ions says...
> 
> > in case of scanned documents,
> > great free option is DjvuSolo (Google),
> > using too little appreciated djvu format.
> >
> > About 350 page book,
> > scanned to per double page images,
> > results to 1.5 MB djvu file.
> > ( about 2-2,5 bytes per character even without OCR )
> >
> > It can be hold either compact, either per page,
> > browser plugins available.
> >
> >
> 
> djvu is interesting, never knew this format! http://djvu.org/ is a nice  
> site know it in detail, with links to samples.
> 
> Just converted a 1028kb TIFF to a 326kb .djvu through the free online  
> converter <http://djvu.org/any2djvu/> ! PDF of the same file is similar to  
> TIFF in size. Last year I a lot of scanning into TIFF, and this surely  
> would have reduced file sizes.

And for multipage scanning it is even better 
( no matter if in compact or per page form )

More pages share some common encoded part,
It is similar appraoch as in solid archives, 
known in RAR on 7-zip.

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Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.