ghostscript
This script will create a compressed file "output.pdf" of the original PDF handed as argument:
# compress_pdf.sh
# Usage ./compress_pdf.sh my-pdf-larger-than-the-universe.pdf
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dDownsampleColorImages=true -dColorImageResolution=150 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf "$@"
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