R.utils (version 2.9.0)

compressPDF: Compresses a PDF (into a new PDF)

Description

Compresses a PDF (into a new PDF).

Usage

# S3 method for default
compressPDF(filename, path=NULL, outFilename=basename(pathname),
  outPath="compressedPDFs", skip=FALSE, overwrite=FALSE, compression="gs(ebook)+qpdf",
  ...)

Arguments

filename, path

The filename and (optional) path of the PDF to be compressed.

outFilename, outPath

The generated PDF.

skip

If TRUE and an existing output file, then it is returned.

overwrite

If FALSE, an error is thrown if the output file already exists, otherwise not.

compression

A character vector of compression methods to apply. This overrides any low-level arguments passed via ... that compactPDF.

...

Additional arguments passed to compactPDF, e.g. gs_quality.

Value

Returns the pathname of the generated PDF.

See Also

Internally compactPDF is utilized.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  pathnameZ <- compressPDF("report.pdf")
# }