Feature Request: Add a way to compress final pdf size

[spointecker]

The currently generated pdfs look great but could be smaller in size.

If there would be an option/setting to choose the quality (1-100) for the pdf output that would be great.

[axelvugts]

I second this! A PDF with 3 photos in it (3x 2MB JPEGs) is 32MB now, which is just a little much

[janswist]

Also interested in this!

[kisamoto]

I don't know how to implement this in gotenberg unfortunately but for those who find this and need smaller pdfs look at using the ps2pdf tool on them in a second step.

ps2pdf input.pdf output.pdf has proven to dramatically shrink file sizes for me.

[gulien]

@kisamoto ps2pdf seems to use Ghostscript , which is, alas, not compatible with the Gotenberg license.

[janswist]

It's kinda interesting to see that many people need it, but somehow there is no JS native solution

[a-ayala]

Does anyone have any recommendations on working optimally with images and the chromium module in Gotenberg?

Similar to @axelvugts I'm rendering a couple of images in my PDF, around 5mb each and the resulting file size is around 12mb. At the moment I'm passing them as file streams.

Is it just the case that we need to compress them before sending them to Gotenberg, and then compress the resulting pdf file again on the way out. Or is there something else we can do?

I wasn't sure if the issue is not with the images themselves but perhaps the options I'm using, currently all defaults.

[WillCohenInfotrack]

I think its related to Tagged PDFs - Here is PR #818