I have a site that I need to archive over 9gigs worth of speeches. I really want to get this down to a more manageable size. When i re-save through preview using the reduce size option the quality is too low and I can’t read the content clearly. What options do I have for batch saving them but at a quality of my choosing?
They are scans of the original typewritten speeches
You have a problem then. PDFs from a text doc can be compressed more than a PDF from an image and still retain quality. 9Gb is too much for sensible server space.
Not sure what your options are but I would certainly break them up into small chunks.
Umm. I just opened one up in Photoshop, the page height size as over 3k pixels. I can resize it in Photoshop to something like 1.2k. I can’t really do every page like that and save it out. I was hoping that I could automate this process some how?
You can automate a lot of stuff in PS - including resizing but this would depend on them all working at the same height.
It wont work if some of these need to be larger - you would need to find the lowest common denominator and by the time you had opened each one to do that you would probably be as quick to resize them while you were there.
Are you saying that when these were originally done from scans that each scanned ‘page’ was added together to create a single very tall page - rather than a multi page PDF.