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    This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

    ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

    Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

    - /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
    - /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
    - /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
    - /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.
    - /default selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file.

    Source: http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm