Recent content by Timolution

👆 What Vormaerin said. Third time that digital-only completionists/backers are basically given the finger. Not amused tbh 😠

Assuming this implies you are not using macOS or a flavour of Linux; these days you can run a full-functional Linux-subsystem on Windows 11 (WSL), so unless you're adverse of running command line programs you wouldn't necessarily need to learn a different OS. Just the basics to learn how to...

Why not extract the images from your legally owned PDFs yourself? If you have access to a *nix system you can easily do this with the pdfimages utility through the CLI: First navigate to the folder where you want the images to be extracted to run the following command: pdfimages -all...

I only have access to the drivethru files for these unfortunately, so cannot look into this myself. When you use PDF Squeezer, are you making sure that you also tick the 'Force image recrompression'? Otherwise images that are below your DPI threshold will not be changed to the requested colour...

No, mine is the direct download version from the author's site. As a rule I try to avoid App Store versions of applications if a direct download version is available, as the former often have sandbox limitations in how they can approach system files/underlying system processes etc. That said...

Well, in the meantime you can always find the processed file (whether inflated or shrunk) at the following location as long as you don't quit PDF Squeezer: ~/Library/Containers/com.witt-software.PDF-Squeezer/Data/tmp/ Just copy it out and rename.

Well, it seems if you reduce the image quality to 99% you will almost always get an output that is smaller than the original PDF, with imperceptible image quality difference. Even at the 300dpi setting, as this basically only says that any image with a resolution >300DPI should be downsampled to...

Just did a quick check and indeed Cairo converts the whole lot to png (without any associated colourspace), and it seems to be generating a lot of extraneous images... Mongoose pdfs have a lot of white Jpeg and JPG2000 background images, which I presume live as as a sort of background under the...

Well, I given the aliasing and subtle colour shifts I presumed it was the conversion rather than the compression (in which case I would rather expect typical block artefacting). So I did a test where I twice 'compressed' a pdf with image quality at 100% and max image dpi at 150 (none of the...

Well whadaya know! Been using this application for years and never thought about using this functionality for this reason…🤯 It does indeed fix the missing images issue while keeping all internal links and TOC metadata intact 🤩🤩🤩 Live and learn I guess. Only thing I am a bit less thrilled about...

Very nice that the issue is rectified! :) Two small questions though: 1) For those of us original Companion owners that received the updated 2024 Companion as a complementary gesture, will that latter one be updated too (here and at DTRPG)? 2) Not sure if you are also planning to update the...

As noted in the corresponding thread the graphical issue on Mac is easily fixable with a bit of elbow grease. However, the pdf's electronic table of contents is completely borked... Hopefully rectified with an update soon?

Hmmmm, not really sure what goes wrong here. I tried the same just now and had no issues with extracting the TOC data from the original file nor with inserting them in the 'fixed' file... It is true that the pdftocairo method will massively blow up the file-size (in my case also about 308 MB)...

May I aks why you are specifically going through this complex exercise? Running the offending PDF through poppler and then reimporting the ToC through pdftk (and maybe do some light compression on the resulting file) will likely give you better* results faster. * Swapping in and out pages in...

Ah, ok, you meant the internal hyperlinks. Yeah, I'm not sure how to easily transfer those programmatically unfortunately (if at all possible). But as you mentioned that you use PDF Expert it is easy, though a bit time-consuming, to add these yourself. In the application, make sure to show the...