A GTK+ GUI Application written in Python that simplifies compressing PDF files with Ghostscript
If you are looking for the macOS port, iDensify, please see this page instead.
Under the Hood
It essentially takes your GUI input and turns it into the following Ghostscript command:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.6 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=[compressed.pdf]
"[input.pdf]"
Installation
Make sure you install the dependencies like notify-send and ghostscript.
You can then either download the latest AppImage(amd64 only) from the release page or follow the below steps.
Step 1:
Clone Densify:
git clone https://github.com/hkdb/Densify.git
or download the tarball from the release page and untar.
Step 2:
Go into the repo dir and execute the install.sh script from within the downloaded Densify directory to install this application:
cd Densify # Or if release tarball: cd Densify-<version>
sudo ./install.sh
Enter your sudo password when the dialog pops up.
You should then see this:
hkdb@machine:/opt/Densify$ sudo ./install.sh
Installation Complete. You are good to go! :)
hkdb@machine:/opt/Densify$
Now, you can search for “densify” in Gnome Shell Search and you will see that Densify is available to launch. Enjoy!
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md.
Disclaimer
This application is maintained by volunteers and in no way do the maintainers make any guarantees. Please use at your own risk!
Recognition
Many thanks to Anthony Wong and Koala Yeung for talking me through this and Dr. Haggen So for sharing the following link that inspired me to write this application:
https://www.tjansson.dk/2012/04/compressing-pdfs-using-ghostscript-under-linux/
This is an application utility sponsored by 3DF Limited’s Open Source Initiative.
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Want a CLI alternative instead?
Check out cPDF, a Python script to simplify compress PDF file size with GhostScript