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How to compress a pdf file on mac without losing quality
Hello everyone, I have a PDF file on my Mac that is too large to upload and share. The document contains a mix of text, images, and a few graphics, so I would like to shrink the PDF file size while ...
If you need to compress a PDF without noticeably reducing its quality, PDFZin is a good option.
https://www.bincodelab.com/compress-pdf-files
It helps shrink the file size while keeping text, images, and page layout clear, which is useful for emailing, uploading, or storing large PDF documents.
Try this business-friendly open source command line tool:
https://github.com/msmarkgu/mrcpdf
It implements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_raster_content compression. Self-contained. Permissive license. Can reduce file size ~3-10x while maintaining the visual quality. It also preserves searchable text, annotations, etc, if any, of the input pdf.