Péter Szabó

@Cubba2412: Can you please upload a sample PDF which demonstrates this bug?

@rbubley: pdfsizeopt has been officially ported to macOS with 64-bit Intel x86 processors. (More details here: https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/issues/158) This port includes official Ghostscript 9.05 binaries within https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/releases/download/2023-02-20/pdfsizeopt_libexec_darwinc64-v3.tar.gz . Installation instructions on...

Thank you for reporting this in detail! This may indicate multiple bugs in pdfsizeopt. Unfortunately I don't have a license for Acrobat Pro DC 2018, so I can't reproduce the...

Can you please convert fo.pdf, for.pdf and forr.pdf with pdfsizeopt, upload all 3*2 files to this issue, and declare which work in Acrobat and which don't? It would be awesome...

Thank you for reporting this. I'd love to debug and fix this, but unfortunately I don't have a copy of *Acrobat Pro DC*, and the error message *Expected a dict...

Nevertheless, it's still worth investigating what difference `qpdf --decode-level=none --normalize-content=y` makes to the PDF file. Maybe pdfsizeopt itself could do it.

Thank you for these observations. The state of this repo (pts/pdfsizeopt) is a result of these requirements: * pdfsizeopt (with all of its binary dependencies) should be easy to install...

>> pdfsizeopt (with all of its binary dependencies) should be easy to install > For python tools the easiest way to install them is pip - the standard package manager...

About lossless JPEG image optimization, see https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/issues/41. (It's not yet implemented.) I've repurposed this bug to lossy JPEG optimization, including the use of external applications. Currently this is not implemented...

See also https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/issues/123 for jpeg-recompress command-lines and lossy JPEG and JPEG 2000 optimizers. Currently pdfsizeopt doesn't do any lossy optimizations (image or other). It would be possible to add lossy...