Large PDF files can be cumbersome to work with, taking up valuable storage space and slowing down transfers and uploads. Compressing PDF documents is a simple and effective way to reduce their file size and optimize them for various uses. By compressing PDFs, you can make them easier to share over email or cloud storage platforms, speed up downloads, and improve overall document management. In this article, you will learn how to compress a PDF document in C# and VB.NET using Spire.PDF for .NET.
Install Spire.PDF for .NET
To begin with, you need to add the DLL files included in the Spire.PDF for.NET package as references in your .NET project. The DLL files can be either downloaded from this link or installed via NuGet.
PM> Install-Package Spire.PDF
Compress Fonts and Images in a PDF Document in C#, VB.NET
Fonts and high-quality images are two main factors that contribute to the size of a PDF document. To reduce the PDF document size, you can compress the font resources (or even unembed fonts) and the image quality. The following are the steps to compress PDF documents using Spire.PDF for .NET.
- Load a PDF document while initializing the PdfCompressor object.
- Get text compression options through PdfCompressor.Options.TextCompressionOptions property.
- Compress font resources by setting TextCompressionOptions.CompressFonts to true.
- Get image compression options through PdfCompressor.Options.ImageCompressionOptions property.
- Set the image compression level through ImageCompressionOptions.ImageQuality property.
- Compress images by setting ImageCompressionOptions.CompressImage to true.
- Save the compressed document to file using PdfCompressor.CompressToFile() method.
- C#
- VB.NET
using Spire.Pdf;
using Spire.Pdf.Conversion.Compression;
namespace CompressPdf
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Load a PDF document while initializing the PdfCompressor object
PdfCompressor compressor = new PdfCompressor("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\ToCompress.pdf");
//Get text compression options
TextCompressionOptions textCompression = compressor.Options.TextCompressionOptions;
//Compress fonts
textCompression.CompressFonts = true;
//Unembed fonts
//textCompression.UnembedFonts = true;
//Get image compression options
ImageCompressionOptions imageCompression = compressor.Options.ImageCompressionOptions;
//Set the compressed image quality
imageCompression.ImageQuality = ImageQuality.High;
//Resize images
imageCompression.ResizeImages = true;
//Compress images
imageCompression.CompressImage = true;
//Save the compressed document to file
compressor.CompressToFile("Compressed.pdf");
}
}
}
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