TechAlliance Products Catalog Spring 1989.Cyber Jack: Synergistic & Robert Clardy.You’d be able to just drag files from a Finder window to an icon on the toolbar of the same window and have ShrinkIt do the processing ‘invisibly’, with no need to launch or quit it directly.įingers crossed that you’ll consider this a useful suggestion… and thanks again. NB This facility would also make ShrinkIt a much more useful tool to plonk in Finder window toolbars. What I’d like is for it to auto-quit after it’s finished processing the selection I’ve given it. That’s great… except that, when the processing is done, I’m left with a window with a big green tick in the middle of my screen, and have to quit ShrinkIt manually. I’ve got my copy handily set up in Overflow (launch utility from Stunt Software), and the new v1.1 lets me do something I’ve wanted for a while: start dragging a PDF file, open Overflow, and drop the PDF on the ShrinkIt icon in Overflow to process it without the need to launch ShrinkIt separately first. Basically, I’d like it to auto-quit after processing, *if* something was dragged to its icon and it wasn’t already running. The ability to drag to the Dock icon in v1.1 is a really useful improvement, but there’s a further refinement that could make it even better. I’d like to put in a small request for version 1.2, though, if I may… Thanks for this really handy utility! I’ve found it extremely useful ever since you first released it, and continue to use it a lot. Are you using blocks & GCD to launch the compressions? Because the dozens of files quite sound like IO makes the CPU drop under 100%, so more blocks are run, which read/write more files, which…Īlso, would there be any possibility of getting, say, a listing of files done & being processed, and a recap of the compression gains? Something similar to what PNGSquash ( ), an application with a very similar purpose and pretty much the same interface (except for PNGs, not PDFs) provides. Well, I tried to test-drive ShrinkIt on my downloads folder before feeding it my documents/papers folders (especially since 1.1 apparently can only compress or do nothing, not expand the size of existing PDFs) and I’ve encountered at least one major issue: the folder contains 83 files for a total of 321Mb, when feeding them to ShrinkIt (select everything, drop into ShrinkIt), ShrinkIt switches to “processing” mode, about a minute later I have a dozen or two _org_-prefixed files cluttering my folder (I’m guessing they’re supposed to be the copies being compressed) and shrinkit has switched back to “drop pdf files to shrink” mode, apparently not doing any compression anymore. It may not work well for complex bitmap-heavy or press-ready PDF’s. Update: ShrinkIt is intended for simple vector resource PDF’s that have more Illustrator cruft than vector data. We’ve seen it shave 4 megabytes off an app bundle. The original files will be renamed with the prefix “_org_” for backup safety. Simply drop a bunch of files (not folders) onto it - such as the contents of your app’s Resources folder - to have it find the PDFs and do its magic. For app resources and icons that aren’t using high-end Illustrator features, this should be lossless - Apple’s PDF code is not compressing anything, just removing cruft. ShrinkIt is a simple, small, Panic-internal tool (for Mac OS X Snow Leopard) that will automate the process of stripping needless metadata from PDFs by re-saving them using Apple’s PDF processor. ShrinkIt Update: ShrinkIt 1.3 is now available over here. We could have re-saved all our PDFs in Preview, but why not make it totally batch-y? Thanks to Will, we present: Swatches, patterns, preview bitmaps, all sort of metadata even though we’d specifically turned off all the extra options when saving from Illustrator: Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities, Embed Page Thumbnails, etc. What was all this extra crud? Will started digging into the files and brother, you won’t believe what he found. Notice anything? Once a PDF has gone though Apple’s PDF processing, it’s way, way smaller. Try this: get the file size of one of those Adobe Illustrator®-produced PDFs. (It’s 11.) Being a responsible and forward-thinking developer, you’re probably good and ready for the day Mac OS X supports resolution independence – lol – so you use multilayer TIFFs and PDFs instead of flat bitmap images whenever possible. Is your application larger than necessary because of needless data stored in image resources? What is making your PDFs four times the size they ought to be? More on this shocking discovery at 11! Update: ShrinkIt 1.3 is now available over here.
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