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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 ...

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Set them in project->configuration properties->Debugging. But there is one more thing to do: Set your project as the Startup Project in the Solution Explorer! If you don't do that, the command line parameters won't be passed in whatever you try!

For whatever reason add

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(XYZ PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE C)