PDF Squeezer 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 take a photo of receipts with my iPhone and save as PDF to attach to Quickbooks transactions.

The forst time I tried this app, it reduced a 2.9mb file down to 102kb.

As I do hundreds of these per month, this is a massive space saving and speeds up file upload time and also the time it takes to open receipts in Quickbooks.

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.)