Quartz filters pdf

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Lu Sponsored Links. In this article: PDF , quartz-filter. Apple has an interesting video tip up this week on reducing the file size of graphic intensive PDFs created from the Print dialog.

In their example, without the filter the resulting PDF is 5. Or are you hosting some other Thanks Jerome! Nevermind, I found the filters in this blog posting. Thanks again. May 6, AM. May 6, AM in response to ioscar In response to ioscar. I believe this is a Dropbox error about the traffic generated by my Dropbox shared links. Since the filters themsemves are about 5KB, I doubt they are the cause for this Dropbox misbehavior!

Anyway, I submitted a support ticket to Dropbox, and hope everything will be back to normal very soon. In the meantime, if you get the same error as ioscar when trying to download them, you can use the link in the blog posting he mentions.

This is out of topic, but for those interested, here is my understanding of what happened with Dropbox. I did a few tests yesterday with large up to 4GB files and Dropbox shared links, trying to find the best way to send a 3 hour recording from French TV - French version of The Voice- to a friend's 5 year old son currently on vacation in Florida, and without access to French live or catch up TV services. One nice thing I found is that you can directly send the Dropbox download URL the one from the Download button on the shared link page to an AppleTV using AirFlick and it works well even for files with a large bitrate except of course for the Dropbox maximum bandwidth per day limit!

Sadly, my Dropbox shared links were disabled before I could send anything to my friend. May 20, AM in response to jerome In response to jerome I've been looking for reliable ways to compress pdf. Quartz filters are one way to do it, but it has always troubled me that the results are often unpredictable.

I've used these Quartz compresson strategies to reduce the size of many pdf documents. While a lot get smaller yay! Much bigger! Never had any explanation for that. What I think is going on is that Quartz doesn't do jpeg compression, but rather a compression strategy that is more appropropriate for text and line drawings.

So if you have a document with a lot of jpeg images in them, this compression strategy probably won't work. It certainly won't work for pdfs that are basically made of jpeg images, such as what you get when your document was produced by most scanning routines, including the ubiquitous VueScan. All pdf documents aren't created equal, and compression really should be a rule-based strategy as in, if you have this kind of document, do this, but if you have that kind, do that. Would be nice if someone knowledgable would weigh in on that.

I like smallpdf. One has to wonder about data mining, in that case. May 20, AM. I cut the first 23 pages away with preview and I get a file with the last 25 pages but the size is now I try to reduce its size with the standard "reduce file size filter" and, low and behold, I get a MB file, yes the size is multiplied by 15 more or less. Desperately trying to reduce the size, I came accross this thread, downloaded the filters tried with the standard recommended filter and same result MB OK, let's give up on quality and choose the 75dpi, low quality option, result is still Does anyone have a clue of what causes this file of reasonable size to blow up out of proportions!

May 20, AM in response to phil. My experience with these and other Quartz filters for pdf file compression is basically flip-the-dice, cross-your-fingers, and say a prayer. They might work well, but they might work horribly. As I mentioned, as a free option, smallpdf. I've used the limited-time trials of several of the commercial pdf compressionsoftware, and they also work marvelously.

So you get what you pay for, in those cases. I think what it means is that writing pdf in Preview isn't smart, if you want to conserve or reduce file size. May 22, PM in response to jerome In response to jerome May 22, PM. Jun 3, AM in response to jerome In response to jerome I've DL the filters and it's just a folder with the "filter"s saved as a document? I'm not sure where to save them from here or how? Could you please walk me thru this? Thank you! I have Moutain Lion Jun 3, AM. Jun 3, PM in response to asballard In response to asballard.

In recent versions of OS X, the Library folder is hidden. To get into it, first make sure you're in the Finder.