Bug 504152

Summary:	[Wishlist] Allow for PDF size+ management.
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Danny Medina <lyrixcaz>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Danny Medina 2025-05-13 14:44:23 UTC

My need to shrink pdf sizes has arised once more, I scanned about 52 pages of documents and while i know I could use smaller dpi on my printer's setting, at the time I was unable to do so; that and the fact that It just didn't cross my mind, specially when wanting to make good clear/readable scans. The pages amounted to about 43mb and I was searching for something to help me get it down to less than 25mb in Okular but i did not find such a setting, not on the 'export as' nor on 'save as' 

I searched online and found a neat command that helped me tremendously and I thought that the requirements for it looked somewhat simple (requiring just ghostscript) The command was:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

* It would be nice to have Okular be able to reduce a pdf's file size, maybe based on profiles like gs' compatibility has ei: screen , ebook , default, printer etc etc.

* Not only that, but how about also being able to delete and or re-order pages?

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2025-05-13 22:36:34 UTC

Okular is not a PDF editor.

There are a multitude of programs out there that can do what you want, use those.