PDF Squeezer ‪3‬ 4+

This is a beautiful little program. It is exceptionally easy and quick to operate and has been written with a great deal of common sense. It’s more an essential than an extra.

If a pdf can be shrunk (and obviously some are already as optimised as the pdf spec allows), it will be shrunk, often with very little visible loss. I love the immediacy of this program: you can see so quickly what is possible with the file in front of you.

I've been using PDF Squeezer for a couple of years now and am enormously impressed by how quick and easy it is to use. Just drop your file into the window, choose the compression you want, and it gives it striaght back to you. Finally the answer to those enormous PDF files emerging from scanners and other software.

I have been using this tool for a little over four years now, principally to reduce the file size of fat scans. Why not scan skinny? a) Becasue you don’t always have the orginal to scan; b) because sometimes it’s good to have a hi res version on file but a low file-size version to e-mail.

Main points for me are that:
- it is simple to use;
- there is little visibile deterioration in quality in most cases - even for some significant file-size reductions.

This app lives in my dock and will be there for a while yet. Developer updates are frequent enough. (Cool icon too.)

Wish list? It would be a nice touch to be able to reduce to a specified file size rather than only to a specified resolution or quality. (Maybe there are practical obstacles to this.)