intelligent pdf resize?

[iaw4]

I have a multipage pdf file, which I want to shrink from 8.25 x 11 to 8 x 10. (createspace does not know about letter paper. grrrr...). presumably,

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  mogrify -resize 90% file.pdf

unfortunately, after some warnings that OSX Quartz screwed up some stuff ( **** Warning: considering '0000000000 00000 n' as a free entry ), the mogrified file is wholly different. It has grown from 6MB to 60MB. I thought postscript and pdf could be scaled just with a few commands. I presume the problem is that imagemagick first converts it into an internal format and then writes it out again.

Does anyone know of a utility that can do pdf resizing under OSX or linux?

/iaw

[fmw42]

don't know of any tool, but see

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#pdf and http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector

[anthony]

That last like is most important.

IM is not a vector image processor. Generating a PDF to a PDF is NOT a good idea.

Acroread print function generally handles 'shrink to fit paper' very well. It is free!!!