HOWTO : Compress PDF on Ubuntu

Ricardo Ferreira maintain/develop a very nice Nautilus script to compress and optimize PDF files. We are going to show you how to install and use it.



Step 1 :



Make sure zenity and ghostscript are installed. If not, please install them.



sudo apt-get install zenity ghostscript



Step 2 :



cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

wget http://launchpad.net/compress-pdf/1.x/1.1/+download/Compress-PDF-1.1.tar.gz

tar zxvf Compress-PDF-1.1.tar.gz




Step 3 :



Locate a PDF file, right click on it. Select "script" and "Compress PDF" on the menu.



A window will popup and just select "Default" and click "OK".



Wait for a while and the compressed PDF will be created accordingly.



That's all! See you!