Note that if you discard editing data, you won't be able to restore the image after you edit it. This option removes stored data that's used to restore the image to its original state after it's been edited. Under Image Size and Quality, do any the following: This option uses the default resolution you set in File > Options > Advanced. Under Target output, select Use document resolution. This option removes the cropped picture data but note that if you delete the cropped picture data, you won't be able to restore it. Make sure that Apply only to this picture is not selected so that the changes you make here will apply to all pictures in the document. In the Compress Pictures dialog box, do any of the following: Gives: page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp object ID x-ppi y-ppi size ratioġ 0 image 3483 4800 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 11 0 3K 2.3%Ģ 1 image 3483 4800 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 24 0 300 300 397K 0.8%ģ 2 image 3483 4800 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 37 0 3K 2.9%Ĥ 3 image 3483 4800 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 50 0 3K 3.8%ĥ 4 image 3483 4800 gray 1 8 jpeg no 63 0 3K 6.Select a picture in your document, and then click the Format tab.

Is there any way to compress the images in a PDF while keeping the text intact?Īs suggested in the comments, running pdfimages -list output.pdf But I have no way to use that new image to replace the old image. If I extract the background images and use pngquant or similar, the filesize is cut dramatically. qpdf -compress-streams=y -recompress-flate -optimize-images in.pdf out.pdf only makes a minor difference.gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen … reduces the resolution, but doesn't seem to re-compress the images.ps2pdf does not significantly reduce the filesize.Using ImageMagick's convert reduces the size, but removes the text.I want to reduce the filesize (not the resolution) of the background image - and preserve the selectable text. Each page of the PDF contains a background image and some foreground text.

File size reducer