action-compress-pdf

Compress PDF Action For Nemo File Manager

This script adds an option to the nemo context menu for compressing PDF files with large embedded images (e.g. for sending it via Email). It is intentionally kept very simple.

• licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 (see LICENSE.txt)
• view source and fork me on GitHub

Debian Package Installation (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)

Download and install the .deb package from the latest release on Github.

Manual Installation

1. Install required packages: apt install nemo python3 python3-urllib3 ghostscript
2. Copy compress-pdf.nemo_action and compress-pdf.py into /usr/share/nemo/actions.
3. Ensure that compress-pdf.sh is executable.
4. Right-click on a PDF file or multiple PDF files, then select Compress PDF(s). This will compress the images inside the PDF file(s) and saves it with the suffix ".converted".

Support

Found a bug? Great!
Please report it (preferably with a ready-to-use fix for it ;-) ) on GitHub. Questions, ideas and feature requests are also welcome.