--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)iastate.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:12:11 -0800
(PST) Patrick Bartek
<bartek047(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
> --- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)iastate.edu>
wrote:
>
> > I seem to recall that there was a pdftopdf in
Fedora 11
> > (from what I
> > recall). Which package provides this in Fedora
12?
> >
> > I tried yum provides */pdftopdf and yum provides
*/*/pdf
> > and yum
> > provides */bin/pdf and yum provides *bin/pdf to
no avail.
> >
>
Any suggestions?
>
> I'm confused. Do you really mean pdftopdf?
If you already have a pdf file, why the need to convert it
to pdf?
>
Hi,
Thanks very much! Good point. The trouble is that my pdf
file is 12 MB
long. The website for a journal will only accept 6MB. There
are all
these sites (Manuscript Central, EES, etc) which take a
huge pdf file
(such as 25 MB) lets say and convert it to something very
small (such
as 2 or 3 MB, lets say) so that it can go for peer review
and they have
to be using some conversion program. I was thinking that it
is
pdftopdf. But maybe not.
Thanks for the clarification, but I'm not aware of any native Linux utilities that do
exactly what you want.
Any suggestions?
Try pdftk, PDF Toolkit, or pdf-tools. There are a lot of other 'yum info pdf*' or
*pdf listings.
Also, does your journal site accept zipped files? Since pdf is mostly plain text, zipping
them can reduce their size considerably without changing the content.
B