Task for Compressing PDFs?

Our studio team produces two versions of PDFs - a high quality one that gets sent to the printer and lower quality one that we post online. Can anybody offer some guidance on writing a task to generate the lower quality version from the higher quality version?

TIA

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msrinivas

What version of MB?

jfincke

4.6 build 25

jfincke

What's the best source for documentation on tasks?

iwTech

Hi

MediaBin Administrator Guide is the best source for documentation on tasks
But if you search at support site , you will find some Tech Note like

Setting Get Original as the Default Task Instead of None Task
Remove the (None) Task from MediaBin's Insertion Task Menu etc..

Vin

msrinivas

What's the best source for documentation on tasks?

I do not think you will be able to do that. Your other option would probably be to transform the original image and then encode it to PDF.

There is a task guide on support that you can download. It has good information.

MediaBin® Asset Server Task User’s Guide

iwTech

[font=Book Antiqua][size=2]MediaBin 4.6 ,IWOV added more docs.
The right document is MediaBin® Asset Server Task User’s Guide ,
,I missed to mention it
Vin
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lyman

If the PDF in question contains a single image (i.e., one page and no text), you will be able to scale the image and then encode as a PDF, but in general we do not have very sophisticated PDF authoring capabilities. We can retrieve a PDF as it was inserted or convert an Office Document to PDF but not, for example, change the compression ration of embedded images.

Also if the images are single page you might want to consider making the "low quality" preview a JPEG, whose quality can easily be adjusted.

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd