#PDF Compression

[a2zconverter]

One of the easiest ways to compress a PDF without losing quality is to use online tools. Tools like A2ZConverter are perfect for this. They provide a fast, simple solution where you can upload your PDF, choose compression settings, and download a high-quality compressed PDF.

[shawnjordison]

How to Compress a PDF: A Simple Guide to Smaller File Sizes

Learn how to compress a PDF to make files smaller. This guide walks you through the steps for customizing PDF compression settings. #PDFCompression #FileSize #AdobePDF #Customization

Hi! I’m Shawn Jordison and welcome to The Accessibility Guy blog. In today’s post, we’re learning how to compress a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Compressing PDFs makes large files quick and easy to share. You can reduce a PDF size by 20% to 30% without compromising quality or readability. Video Guide Get accessible Documents Now Following this guide will teach you how to customize Adobe’s…

[architect-of-the-last-act]

Part II. On Spring Cleaning, the Lingering Frost

or alternatively: No weight is heavier than regret.

+ Spring follows the harshness of Winter. Though seen as a 'soft' season, it is associated with rebirth—bloody flesh transforming into itself, skin rupturing at the seams. A renewal of sorts. Soft it may seem, Spring is simply as kind as the winter allows it to be. ... In this life, how many ghosts haunt these halls? How many will you allow? Maybe it's time for an upheaval. Such is the role of Spring.

Part I | Part III | Part IV

authors below:

Illustrations from A Stepmother’s Märchen | Unknown | Spring Equinox, Jeanette Winterson | The Years, Virginia Woolf | We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson | South London Forever, Florence & The Machine | a letter, Germaine de Staël (translated by Kathleen Jameson-Cemper) | West Wind, Mary Oliver | Letters From Medea, Salma Deera | tumblr post, @/inelegancies | Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli | Japanese Breakfast | The Letters Of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath | Vincenzo Bellini | I, Carrion (Icarian), Hozier | I Don’t Smoke, Mitski | The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller | When the Sun Loves the Moon, Reinaeiry | Soul Mates, Lang Leav | a letter, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar | Circe, Madeline Miller | a letter, Friedrich Nietzsche | Daily Haiku on Love, Tyler Knott Gregson | Ivy, Frank Ocean | The Vow | Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe | Mind Over Matter, Young the Giant | Great Expectations, Charles Dickens | I, Carrion (Icarian), Hozier | The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller | This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald | Light, Sleeping at Last | Thought Catalog, Kim Quindlen | Jay Vespertine | Unknown | Light, Sleeping at Last | City of Bones, Cassandra Clare | James Joyce | Night Walk, Franz Wright | Unknown

[chicago-geniza]

My Fuckass Job update: we are officially banned from carrying books "on the floor," to combat...staff...reading on the job when it's slow instead of, idk, doing busywork or feigning looking busy. We work in a bookstore. I am sooo tempted to be pedantic and remonstrate with them on imprecise semantic terms but that would be unproductive in the extreme. It would, however, be very funny if we all pretended to take it literally and just stopped shelving/stocking/pulling for a week

[samwiselastname]

there is no fucking reason for adobe print-to-pdf to defaut to 300 DPI

[gynandromorph]

so, .CBZ files are just zipped folders of numbered files renamed to a different extension. the thing is-- look at this screenshot from the .CBZ reader.

beautiful. crisp pixels.

but if i turn it back into a .zip folder, the .tif files are NOT crisp like this. here's an example of a page which is also present in the regular secretary, which has completely clean pixel lines

can someone better at this explain to me why the CBZ reader can make these files presumably their native resolution but the tif files being fed to the program compress them when i open them

[lesbiangiratina]

What if i posted the 07 testament anthology scans today. I dunno. We’ll see after therapy

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Finally finished scanning that book.

[disneyprincessdxminatrix]

1:34am, gotta get up at 7am. but I think I wore myself out by having a good cry so I can hopefully pass out into a calm sleep..

[moonlitcomet]

hierarchy of needs image that's just the entire triangle filled with "fat women squashing me flat like a hydraulic press"

[greaseonmymouth]

just spent half an hour examining all my physical books to try to choose one to read on my commute next and utterly failed

[tap-tap-tap-im-in]

This is how you know it's going to be a high quality CBZ file.

I really should add in some jpeg or webp compression huh?

[elfgrove]

As this post is doing numbers, I just want to remind folk this is not the end of the world. It's just a new security risk that everyone should be aware of in order to not fall for it.

I did not intend to cause a panic but to make folk aware. Folk can't avoid things they don't know are a risk.

As much as some tech-savvy folk are saying it's not an issue, my concern isn't for the extremely tech savvy, my concern is for average users making an understandable mistake (the way I've had to teach new hires how to use file directories shows what some of us think of as standard knowledge is not thanks to so many folk primarily using tablets and phones now) and the not-savvy users (like elders) getting fooled. Sometimes the warning sign is not for you, and the rest of us can tell when you haven't been dealing with average user behaviors for a long time.

It's not a giant deal but it is creating scenarios that are ripe for exploitation. It's just a shame that folk at Google and ICANN approved it. Now we all have to be aware of it to deal with that result.

Since a couple of folk asked, .zip and .mov URLs will not overwrite your ability to access local files. The concern I brought up above is more about folk confusing automatically resolved hyperlinks from plain text or search bars with legitimate files or intentional links.

You don't need to boycott anyone over it, and the horse is already out of the gate so it's not likely to go away even if you protest it.

Just be aware and be cautious.

Right now, since the domains are new and very few if any legitimate registration uses have been made, it's not a bad idea to block the TLDs at least temporarily until there's known legitimate uses, the initial fervor has died down, and awareness has increased. "The ICSS recommends to disable access to .zip domains entirely until the dust settles and risks can be accessed."

If you want to block the domains, here's a couple of tutorials:

Jeffrey Appel: Block gTLD (.zip)/ FQDN domains with Windows Firewall and Defender for Endpoint

The SQL Herald: Blocking .zip and .mov Top Level Domains from Office 365 Email

I saw some folk saying adding ||zip^ and ||mov^ (including the || and ^s) to your My Filters tab in uBlock Origin will do it for the browser that has uBlock enabled, but I have not tested it.

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

[lesbiangiratina]

Kat why didnt you save teh cleaned up scans of the 2007 testament anthology Before shrinking them. Why kat

[pdfzen123]

Essential PDF Editing Features Every Small Business Needs

With the huge amount of documents, contracts, and forms, small businesses need to navigate today’s digital landscape. PDFs have become the default format for sharing information since they are flexible and trustworthy. But it takes more than that to unlock the full potential of PDFs.

This blog explores the must-have PDF editing features that every small business should look into to make their work easier and more productive.

[tofufei]

why does indesign suck ass. how come compressing images to 300dpi vs to 100dpi only makes the filesize go from 67MB to 66MB? 💀 what r u doing. this file is like 30 pages graphs. the compression should make a huge difference