Want to shrink the file size of a pdf? Use the following command. ebook has a good balance between the file size and the image quality. screen compresses the images too much.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook[screen, ] -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
-dPDFSETTINGS=configuration Presets the "distiller parameters" to one of four predefined settings:
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/screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
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/ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
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/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
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/prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.
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/default selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file.