Posted by: RTT
« on: June 28, 2017, 02:30:42 AM »That program only converts all the source files to black and white images (for PDFs, it renders each PDF to a image first) and then creates a PDF with these images. It's like a fax2pdf, without OCR, converter. No such advanced text to outlines (curves) functionality available.Quote3) Convert text to image PDF ( curve fonts)This function is used quite often, for example, to reduce the size of text- based pdf file. It is implemented in the Actomat program, http://apps.kuczynski.pl
Not a very good practice, and only useful for very specific scenarios needed by users that already have access to tools that can do this.
it works automatically when binarizing pdf. Used Leptonica library http://www.leptonica.com
And converting text to outlines usually increases the data size, so it's not a solution to reduce the file size.
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For such a simple task, i.e. to provide a shell context menu to run that external program with the selected files, and if that application installer doesn't do that for you, or you want to provide your custom command line parameters, just create a My Tool to easily add it to the shell context menu. Check attached screenshot for details.Quote6) Send the pdf file to the program-compressorI'm not an expert, but can not I make a script:
These compressors do not support the command line:( but PDF-ShellTools script will help fix it))
If there is no command line, nor COM automation, how do you command these tools from a script?
1) In the context menu of the pdf file(s), open the line PDF Shelltools "Compress with..." (Specific settings are filled in by the user himself)
2)Starting the compressor program
3)Automatically transfer of the file(s) icon to the compressor program window.
Then you can manually select the compression mode and start
This will be similar to "Send to" command, if the program-compressor supported the command line
Or you may manually register a custom static verb.