Shrink Quality: a practical guide
A quality slider beats three fixed presets because the right setting depends on the document. Move it down until the file clearly breaks, then back up until the pages look right again. Text and vector graphics are never touched; only photographs and scans are re-encoded, so the result stays readable at any setting.
A quality slider beats three fixed presets because the right setting depends on the document. Move it down until the file clearly breaks, then back up until the pages look right again. Text and vector graphics are never touched; only photographs and scans are re-encoded, so the result stays readable at any setting.
How to use it: Upload the PDF you want to shrink. Then Move the quality slider to your preferred level. Then Compare the preview and the new file size. Then Download the document at that setting..
Fine-grained quality control. Live size estimate while you adjust. Text layer never degraded. Ideal for scanned documents and receipts.
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Shrink PDF by Lowering Quality — Lower the image quality in a PDF to cut file size, with a slider for control.