Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Shrink PDF Files in OS X and Control Image Quality

This guide is using information from here and providing clearer instructions and a Automator script to compress many at once.
  • Go here and click the green Clone or download button, then select Download ZIP.
  • Go to Downloads on your computer and rename the downloaded folder to Filters.
  • Make a new Finder window (Command+n) and then hold Option while clicking Go -> Library in the menu.
  • Drag the Filters folder with he files you downloaded into this new Library folder.
  • Download this program to your Applications folder or Desktop.
  • Now you can just all your PDF's files at once and drop them onto the application and it will compress them and save the compressed versions to your desktop.