A lightweight, native macOS application for efficient PDF compression. Built with SwiftUI, cpdf offers an intuitive interface for reducing PDF file sizes while maintaining reasonable quality.
- 🎯 Simple drag & drop interface
- 🔧 Multiple compression levels
- High (Original quality)
- Minimal (1440p)
- Light (1080p)
- Medium (720p)
- Strong (480p)
- 🎨 Color mode options
- Full color space
- Grayscale
- 🌍 Multilingual support (English, German)
- 💻 Native macOS experience
- 🔒 Privacy focused - all processing happens locally
- Download the latest version from the Releases page
- Open the downloaded DMG file
- Drag cpdf to your Applications folder
- Launch cpdf from Applications
- macOS 13.0 or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel processor
- Approximately 50MB of disk space
- Launch cpdf
- Drop a PDF file into the window or click "Select PDF"
- Adjust compression settings if needed
- The compressed PDF will be saved automatically
- High: Optimizes the PDF without visible quality loss
- Minimal (1440p): Perfect for high-quality presentations and documents with many images
- Light (1080p): Best for documents with high-quality images
- Medium (720p): Good balance between size and quality
- Strong (480p): Maximum compression, suitable for basic documents
- Full Color Space: Preserves original color information
- Grayscale: Converts to grayscale for smaller file sizes
Built with modern Apple technologies and best practices.
- Xcode 15.0 or later
- macOS 13.0 SDK
- Swift 5.9
- Clone the repository
- Open the project in Xcode
- Build and run the project