how to reduce large pdf's ?

[Bob Goodwin]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:14:29 -0500
> Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>     I have four legal documents in pdf that add up th about 25 mB.
>>
>>     I've looked at Evince and Xpdf but neither seems to offer a way to
>>     change the _file_ size.  Gimp will but then it seems it can't save a
>>     pdf?  Licensing perhaps?
>>
>>     What do I need to do?
>>     
>
> pdf2ps
> ps2ps
>
>   
I began with this huge file:
8718146 2007-12-16 12:57 Livret-de-Famille-2x.pdf

Gimp reduced the size and resolution and I saved the file as a .ps
 380821 2007-12-16 13:59 Livret-de-Famille-2x.ps

And then did ps2pdf which produced this which displays and prints a 
legible copy.
 122130 2007-12-16 14:15 Livret-de-Famille-23.pdf

Thanks for the assistance.

Bob Goodwin