DragDropPDF

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Licence

AGPL-3.0 licence is needed to add Ghostscript binary to DragDropPdf setup package

About

Litte program that display a square on your destop, you can drag'n drop pdf files on it to reduce the size. You chan choose between 3 modes and change their settings for your needs. It work with Ghostsript under AGPL-3.0 licence

Here a short presentation :

Installation

Run the setup

Use it with python

Work with python 3.10

You'll need Ghostscript binary (unzip the setup) in bin folder

• gsdll64.dll
• gsdll64.lib
• gswin64.exe
• gswin64c.exe

git clone https://github.com/yann83/DragDropPDF.git

pip install -r requirements.txt

then run interface.py main

About Ghostscript : I use this version : github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs10050

Download gs10050w64.exe then extract the bin folder content with 7zip for exemple.

How to Use

Right click on on the square

you can choose between 3 levels of compression :

• HIGH for highest quality
• LOW for lowest quality

From the contextual menu you can choose the output folder.

Avanced configuration

you can edit the config.json file.

You will find the config.json file in the same location as the DragDropPDF executable

Here the default config.json content.

base_args value is a list with Ghostscript default parameters for all profiles.
Then you'll find high, medium and low profiles parameters. Each one have custom Ghostscript parameters.

{
  "path": "C:/temp",
  "base_args": [
    "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
    "-dNOPAUSE",
    "-dQUIET",
    "-dBATCH",
    "-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4"
  ],
  "pics": {
    "high": "pdf.jpg",
    "medium": "pdfmedium.jpg",
    "low": "pdflow.jpg"
  },
  "current": {
    "low": "pdflow.jpg"
  },
  "high": {
    "dPDFSETTINGS": "/printer"
  },
  "medium": {
    "dPDFSETTINGS": "/ebook",
    "sColorConversionStrategy": "Gray",
    "dProcessColorModel": "/DeviceGray"
  },
  "low": {
    "dPDFSETTINGS": "/screen",
    "sColorConversionStrategy": "Gray",
    "dProcessColorModel": "/DeviceGray"
  }
}