JavaScript Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

Shrink a PDF Losslessly

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Demonstrates the "optimize" operation with the default options, which is the lossless preset: nothing is resampled, recoloured or thrown away, so every page looks exactly as it did and all the text is still there. The changes are kept in memory until WriteFile (or WriteBd) is called. Note that the real saving is "fileSize" minus the size of the file that was written, not "bytesSaved": the rewrite also packs objects into object streams and writes a compact cross-reference stream, which belongs to no option. JavaScript

var success = false;

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  The PDF used in this example is available at grand_canyon_hiking_guide.pdf

var pdf = new CkPdf();
success = pdf.LoadFile("qa_data/pdf/grand_canyon_hiking_guide.pdf");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  An empty JSON means the default options: every lossless optimization, object streams generated,
//  old revisions dropped, deflate level 9.
var json = new CkJsonObject();
var jsonOut = new CkJsonObject();
success = pdf.Optimize("optimize",json,jsonOut);
if (success == false) {
    console.log(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Nothing has been written yet.  WriteFile (or WriteBd) produces the optimized PDF.
success = pdf.WriteFile("qa_output/grand_canyon_optimized.pdf");
if (success == false) {
    console.log(pdf.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

var fac = new CkFileAccess();
var sizeBefore = jsonOut.IntOf("fileSize");
var sizeAfter = fac.FileSize("qa_output/grand_canyon_optimized.pdf");

console.log("before: " + sizeBefore);
console.log("after:  " + sizeAfter);
console.log("saved:  " + (sizeBefore - sizeAfter));

//  What the options themselves account for.  This is smaller than the real saving above, because the
//  rewrite's own gains (object streams, the cross-reference stream, the old sections left behind)
//  belong to no single option.
console.log("bytesSaved (options only): " + jsonOut.IntOf("bytesSaved"));