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PdfCompress
PdfCompress 6.2
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(4) 4.875

Reduce the size of your PDF documents.   Commercial ($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.
What's New
Version 6.2:
  • Increases compatibility with out-of-spec PDF files.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later







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PdfCompress User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 6.x:
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+2

J-Khulasphoc reviewed on 08 Nov 2011
Extremely fast & easy to use! Output files really do shrink with and the quality is surprisingly good! Nice little powerful program
[Version 6.0.6]


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+88

Dtruett1 reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
I'm a teacher and have been using my ScanSnap S1500M to convert a lot of my resource and workbooks to PDF files. Beats running to the copier. Cumulatively, my school folder does grow pretty large.

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.
[Version 6.0]


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-34
An.onymous commented on 26 Oct 2009
I got a quick email reply but the demo license code in it did not work.
Don't loose your time with people who multiply obstacles to testing their stuff.
[Version 5.7]


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An.onymous commented on 26 Oct 2009
After you have downloaded you cannot use the demo immediately. You must send an email and wait for a demo licence. It is much less convenient (and spam proof) than PDFShrink, but it seems thatPDFCompress lets one choose precisely how much the file will be compressed. A thing that PDFShrink does not.
[Version 5.7]


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GetSomeSauce commented on 24 Feb 2009
Just to expound on TFINDLAY's wise words, with Quartz Filters, you can take total control of the compression process. In Leopard (perhaps Tiger or earlier, I'm don't recall), in your Utilities folder you'll find "ColorSync Utility". With this program, you can create you own quartz filters which allow to you compress PDFs as much as you see fit. When you start ColorSync Utility, you'll see how Apple programmed their "Reduce File Size" quartz filter that you see in Preview. It's remarkably easy to make your own filter by modeling it off Apple's filter. Head on over to for a quick tutorial. Also, some nice guy on Apple's Discussion boards put up a bunch of premade filters you can download that do the same thing. A follow-up poster even posted AppleScript code and Automator recommendations to make compressing PDFs a snap! Check out for more on that. Happy PDF-Shrinking!
[Version 5.7]

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GetSomeSauce replied on 24 Feb 2009
Sorry - here are those two links...

How-To - http(colon-slash-slash)www(dot)hoboes(dot)com(slash)Mimsy(slash)?ART=360

Apple Discussion Board - http(colon-slash-slash)discussions(dot)apple(dot)com(slash)thread(dot)jspa?messageID=6109445&tstart=0

Good Luck!
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+1
Rhodee commented on 30 Nov 2007
Isn't that interesting. One learns a great deal here from just reading the comments.
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
[Version 5.6.1]


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+34
tfindlay commented on 29 Nov 2007
Maybe I'm missing something but Preview can reduce PDFs. Open a PDF then choose Save As... Select PDF in the popup menu and select Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size.
[Version 5.6.1]


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Anonymous reviewed on 03 May 2005
I know another great application for creating small PDFs, suitable for sending via email and the web...

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.
[Version 4.4.3]

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+5
mark.anderson replied on 24 Feb 2006
Stuffit = Ignorance.

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
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Apr 2005
pdfCompress is a decent app, but I much prefer PDFshrink -- great preset system.

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/9206
[Version 4.4]


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Anonymous reviewed on 14 May 2004
Application crashes when i print thru PDF Services. Output is corrupt many times. pdfshrink is a better product imho.
[Version 4.3.1]


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Myotis rated on 25 Dec 2011

[Version 6.1]




zebrazebra rated on 24 Aug 2011

[Version 6.0.4]


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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