Creating Optimizer Profiles

PDF Studio 10 and above is capable of optimizing PDF documents. To make the process easier PDF Studio allows you to create Optimizer Profiles which allow you to save your settings to use later. PDF Studio comes with 3 default profiles that you can use or you can create your own from either a blank template or by modifying a default. The default profiles and their functions are listed below.

To create custom Optimizer Profiles follow the steps below.

Creating Custom Optimizer Profiles

  1. Open any document in PDF Studio 10 and above
  2. On the menu bar select Document->Optimizer->Optimize or press Ctrl+Shift+O on your keyboard
  3. Optimizer
  4. This will display the Optimizer settings dialog
  5. Optimizer settings1
  6. Set all of the options that you would like to have in your profile. You can either start from an existing profile or a blank template by selecting New Item from the drop down.
  7. Optimizer profiles
  8. Once you have completed setting your optimize options click on Save. This will bring up a window to name your profile.
  9. Optimizer profile name
  10. If you are starting from a blank template this field will be blank. If you started from a previous profile the previous profiles name will be displayed. If you would like to just update the previous profile leave the name and click OK. If you would like to create a new profile just type in the new name you would like to save it as and click OK.
  11. Once complete your profile will now be available in the drop down menu as well as the quick optimize options in the menu bar
  12. Optimizer quick options

 

Default Profiles

-Light

  • Color Images
    • Compression = JPEG – Quality = 8
    • DPI = 600
  • Grayscale Images
    • Compression = JPEG – Quality = 8
    • DPI = 600
  • B&W Images
    • Compression = JBIG2
    • DPI = 600
  • Object Removal
    • Alternate Images, Unused Resources, Embedded Thumbnails
  • Other
    • Flate Uncompressed Streams, Merge Duplicate Images, Merge Duplicate Fonts

-Balanced

  • Color Images
    • Compression = JPEG – Quality = 5
    • DPI = 150
  • Grayscale Images
    • Compression = JPEG – Quality = 5
    • DPI = 150
  • B&W Images
    • Compression = JBIG2
    • DPI = 300
  • Object Removal
    • Alternate Images, Unused Resources, Embedded Thumbnails
  • Other
    • Flatten All Comments, Flate Uncompressed Streams, Merge Duplicate Images, Merge Duplicate Fonts

-Aggressive

  • Color Images
    • Compression = JPEG2000 – Quality = 3
    • DPI = 100
  • Grayscale Images
    • Compression = JPEG2000 – Quality = 3
    • DPI = 100
  • B&W Images
    • Compression = JBIG2
    • DPI = 150
  • Object Removal
    • Alternate Images, Attachments, Metadata, Unused Resources, Embedded Thumbnails, Comments
  • Other
    • Flatten All Fields, Flate Uncompressed Streams, Merge Duplicate Images, Merge Duplicate Fonts