

Now select Save as PDF in the Destination drop-down control and click Save.In the Chrome tab showing the PDF click the Print option in the top right of the screen.Right-click the PDF file and select Open with and then select Google Chrome.However, a similar process is available with other browsers and operating systems. In our example below, we use Google Chrome on Windows to create a new file from the original file with large content streams. Most modern browsers come with the ability to open PDF files and also 'Print to PDF'. This file can subsequently be compressed with WeCompress or NXPowerLite and end up much smaller. Doing this can create a file that is bigger than the original but usually without large amounts of Content Streams. There is a method that can help make PDF files smaller in size but it involves creating a new file by printing the PDF.

Using Print to PDF option to recreate a new PDF file Can Content Streams within PDF files be compressed by WeCompress (or NXPowerLite)?Ĭurrently, it is not possible for NXPowerLite Desktop or WeCompress to manipulate or compress Content Streams data. Some applications create PDFs that use Content Streams and other applications create PDFs that make use of image and text markup that don't require large content streams. A lot of PDF files only have one content stream but some PDF files have multiple content streams. So content streams are essentially the contents of the pages - the text and any line drawings. A page in a PDF document has one or more content stream parts that together contain all the PDF page description commands for the page.
