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PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. The PDF files produced by Mac OS X's Quartz rendering system are beautiful, but huge, and therefore often not usable for posting on the web or sending via e-mail. The reason for these gargantuan file-sizes is that Quartz doesn't compress photographs and other pictures using the efficient JPEG photo compression method, instead using a different method that only yields good results for line art.
What's New
Version 6.2:
- Increases compatibility with out-of-spec PDF files.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:42,153 |
| Version Downloads:2,368 |
| Type:Utilities : Compression |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:16 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $29.90 |
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PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. The PDF files produced by Mac OS X's Quartz rendering system are beautiful, but huge, and therefore often not usable for posting on the web or sending via e-mail. The reason for these gargantuan file-sizes is that Quartz doesn't compress photographs and other pictures using the efficient JPEG photo compression method, instead using a different method that only yields good results for line art.
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J-Khulasphoc reviewed on 08 Nov 2011
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Dtruett1 reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
I put this app to work yesterday with great results. For example, I took a 65 page book on writing with lots of graphics and obviously text, which was 37.9 MB. Ran it through PDFCompress and the result was 11.1 MB. Multiplied by the number of these PDF files I have, there will be a huge savings in disk space. Putting the original and the result side by side, the only loss in quality was a very slight amount of contrast and a tiny loss of crispness of text-very slight and acceptable for virtually any PDF I have, and would have been unnoticeable had I not compared out of curiosity. Excellent program.
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Don't loose your time with people who multiply obstacles to testing their stuff.
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Good Luck!
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I didn't know about the quartz filter. Tried it on a 492 k doc which reduced to 68k. Bloody amazing.
Thanks macupdate and keep up the great job.
rhodee
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Anonymous reviewed on 03 May 2005
It's called DropStuff, it's included in Stuffit Standard, and it's FREE
Use the SitX compression with blockmode, optimizers and Compression Via Analysis on, and you'll get nice compact files.
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1. Zip file compression is built-in to Tiger, why use a third party tool?
2. Most Windows-based recipients don't have Stuffit on their machines.
3. People want native PDF, not stuffed documents.
4. Stuffing a properly made PDF will result in little or no file size reduction
Anonymous reviewed on 25 Apr 2005
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/9206
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