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doc: fixed Ghostscript version
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Peter Szabo committed Feb 15, 2023
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borrowing a friend's computer with Linux or Windows, or renting a Linux VM
in the cloud. The reason why it's difficult to run pdfsizeopt on your system
is because pdfsizeopt has some required dependencies, some of them are old
versions (e.g. Python 2.4--2.7, Ghostscript 8.50), so you'll have to compile
versions (e.g. Python 2.4--2.7, Ghostscript 9.05), so you'll have to compile
the right versions of the dependencies first, which may take several hours
and lots of frustrating trial-and-error even for experienced hackers.

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Installation instructions and usage on generic Unix
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Doing this is increasingly hard in 2023, because pdfsizeopt needs Python
2.4--2.7 and Ghostscript 8.50, both very old, and thus hard to install to a
2.4--2.7 and Ghostscript 9.05, both very old, and thus hard to install to a
modern system.

There is no installer, you need to run some commands in the command line
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* Python (command: python). Version 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 work (3.x doesn't
work).
* Ghostscript (command: gs): Version 8.50 is known to work, and some early
9.x versions also work. The most recent versions don't work, especially
for font optimization.
* Ghostscript (command: gs): Version 9.05 is recommended, 8.50 should also
work, and some early 9.x versions such as 9.14.1 also work. The most
recent versions don't work, especially for font optimization.
* jbig2 (command: jbig2): Install from source:
https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt-jbig2
If you are unable to install, use pdfsizeopt --use-jbig2=no .
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