
I learned a lot from this Apple discussions post. In my case, this reduced the file size to 10 MB.
#Compress pdf pdf
#Compress pdf code
A follow-up poster even posted AppleScript code and Automator recommendations to make compressing PDFs a snap! Check out for more on that. Also, some nice guy on Apple's Discussion boards put up a bunch of premade filters you can download that do the same thing. It's remarkably easy to make your own filter by modeling it off Apple's filter. When you start ColorSync Utility, you'll see how Apple programmed their "Reduce File Size" quartz filter that you see in Preview. With this program, you can create you own quartz filters which allow to you compress PDFs as much as you see fit. In Leopard (perhaps Tiger or earlier, I'm don't recall), in your Utilities folder you'll find "ColorSync Utility". With Quartz Filters, you can take total control of the compression process. This is from a review of PDFCompress on : Just select the PDF file (max 50MB) to compress and wait.

file size of up to 90 the original size, without losing the visual quality.

Ahhh! Turns out that you can fine tune the quartz filter that Preview uses. Here you can compress PDF documents online and reduce their.
