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Category
PDF
License
AGPL
Platforms
Windows Linux
Released
1988
Path
c:\gs\gswin64c.exe
gswin64 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDetectDuplicateImages=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPrinted=false -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOUTPUTFILE=d:\outputfile.pdf inputfile.pdf
Optimize a PDF (pdfwrite, /default settings)
Re-process the selected PDF through Ghostscript's pdfwrite device with PDFSETTINGS=/default to produce an optimized PDF. Useful for stripping redundancy and shrinking large PDFs while keeping reasonable visual fidelity.
Agree to terms to run demos.
# Ghostscript - Help
Source: https://www.ghostscript.com/
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GPL Ghostscript 10.05.0 (2025-03-12)
Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages
-g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Default output device: display
Available devices:
bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bitrgbtags bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bmp16 bmp16m
bmp256 bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 cdeskjet cdj500 cdj550
cdjcolor cdjmono chameleon cljet5 cljet5c cljet5pr declj250 deskjet
devicen display dj505j djet500 djet500c dnj650c docxwrite eps2write
eps9high eps9mid epson epsonc fpng fs600 hocr ibmpro ijs imagen ink_cov
inkcov jetp3852 jpeg jpegcmyk jpeggray laserjet lbp8 lj250 lj3100sw
lj4dith lj4dithp lj5gray ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 ljet4d ljet4pjl
ljetplus lp2563 m8510 mswinpr2 necp6 nullpage oce9050 ocr paintjet pam
pamcmyk32 pamcmyk4 pbm pbmraw pclm pclm8 pcx16 pcx24b pcx256 pcxcmyk
pcxgray pcxmono pdfimage24 pdfimage32 pdfimage8 pdfocr24 pdfocr32 pdfocr8
pdfwrite pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw picty180 pj pjetxl pjxl pjxl300 pkmraw
plan planc plang plank planm planr plib plibc plibg plibk plibm png16
png16m png16malpha png256 png48 pngalpha pnggray pngmono pngmonod pnm
pnmcmyk pnmraw ppm ppmraw pppm ps2write psdcmyk psdcmyk16 psdcmykog
psdcmyktags psdcmyktags16 psdrgb psdrgb16 psdrgbtags pxlcolor pxlmono
r4081 sj48 spotcmyk st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696
tiff12nc tiff24nc tiff32nc tiff48nc tiff64nc tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d
tiffg4 tiffgray tifflzw tiffpack tiffscaled tiffscaled24 tiffscaled32
tiffscaled4 tiffscaled8 tiffsep tiffsep1 txtwrite uniprint urfcmyk
urfgray urfrgb xpswrite
Search path:
%rom%Resource/Init/ ; %rom%lib/ ; c:/gs/gs10.05.0/Resource/Init ;
c:/gs/gs10.05.0/lib ; c:/gs/gs10.05.0/Resource/Font ; c:/gs/fonts
Initialization files are compiled into the executable.
For more information, see https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.05.0/Use.html
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.
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