Compress PDF via API: Reduce File Size Programmatically
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PDFs generated from HTML or web pages with images can get large. A product catalog with high‑resolution photos might produce a 15 MB file. An annual report with charts and screenshots could hit 8 MB. These sizes cause real problems: slow downloads, email attachment limits, expensive storage, and poor user experience. Manual compression through Acrobat or online tools doesn't work when you're generating hundreds of PDFs programmatically. You need compression that runs as part of your generation pipeline – and with a PDF compression API, you can apply it in the same request that creates the PDF.