PDF Squeezer 3 App Reviews

In a jam and needed a quick solution. Downloaded four others that did not work as advertised, this one did. Nice job!

Clean and simple; easy to use. Gets in, compresses the file and gets out. I use this program regularly and it offers just enough tweaking and options and is quite intuitive.

If you create your own PDF files of various documents, you will know that images in them makes them HUGE, this simple little program fixes that issue with them instantly, just drop the file in the app, select compression you want, and bingo. you now have a file you can e-mail or upload and that still looks great. Highly recommended!!!

This program is surprisingly good. Surprising only in that I didn’t expect much. Instead it made 80k files from pdf files that were 1.4 MB. Simple interface, fast processing, reasonable price. Buy!

I was not really sure if it would really be able to sign the huge PDFs i had but surprisingly did an excellent job. Huge thumbs up

very useful application. I use this app for all pdf, it is fast and perfect. you solve me the problem to send pdf by mail tnks to developer

I’ve only just installed this and so far, so good. I do a monthly 8-page newsletter with quite a few pictures in it for both print and email distribution. I am not yet sure whether I should transmit the full-size version to the printer as usual (they’ve never complained about file size) and just condense the electronic copy for distribution to 80+ email addresses. Yesterday I was sending my draft copy out for review and noticed it was taking a LOT longer to load than usual, so I checked and saw that the file size was 11.5MB i(t is usually well under 10.) I did not even know there was such a thing as PDF file reducers, but I went into my layout application (iStudia, available right here at the App Store) HELP function and found a section on PDF file sizes. THAT’s where I first learned of “PDF Squeezer” and other filters to reduce the size of PDF files. ONE THING I DID NOT DO - as instructed by iStudio HELP was to click on their link to install filters. It said : If your computer is running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later, you. may need to complete the following steps…to make the Library folder visible in Finder, after which it told me to enter a command in the Terminal folder (under Utilities) and then (regardless whether I was running Lion or an earlier OS) to unzip the filters. I say I did not, but I thought about doing it and then thought, hey, I don’t know if I should be messing around with any utilities - so I backed out and just came to App Store to find the Squeezer. IT WAS SUPER EASY to install and is very intuitive to use. Only after condensing my 11.5MB file down to 4.3MB, when I went to attach it to an email, it was still 11.5MB so I thought I had done something wrong — but how could I - it’s easy as pie to drop your file into the one box and see it appear in a second box quite a bit smaller. So I did it again, with the same result. I had to rethink whether I really needed to go into Utilities and tinker with the Terminal commands. THEN I tried the Sueezer process again and slapped my forehead with a rueful “DUH” when I reailzed that I had not hit the save button after the compression had completed. Well, now, I thought “Bob’s yer uncle” and saved the darned thing - I attached my 4.3MB file to an email to the draft reviewer, and off it went. The reason for the “provisional” 4-star rating is that I have examined both PDF files - the original large one and the squeezed down one - and I must say there was no cutting off on the right side of the page as one reviewer here reported, BUT there is ONE LINE of text at the top of one of my eight pages with a little blurring in it. I am going to try to live with that but, if it happens again or if it gets worse, I will have to decide whether the loss of quality is worth reducing any but the largest files. After all, I have been transmitting unreduced versions of this newsletter for 4 years now and never noticeed the need to condense it before. The only other comment I’d like to add concerns the review below by apachestar, who had a 50 page, photo heavy 11MB file to reduce — WHAT APPLICATION are you using to produce a 50 page photo heavy document that is only 11MB - and how, I wonder, can my little 8-page newsletter with a few pictures in it have become 11.5MB? But I presume that my issue here is more a function of the application (iStudio, which, though I can’t say I LOVE it, I am pretty happy with) that I am using for my newsletter. The only other document I produce on a regular basis is an annual 44-page membership directory which is all text and no pictures and is printed as a half size publiation (8.25”x 5.5”) anyway, which is primarily distributed as a print document with an electronic copy on our website - no email distribution - so size is not a problem there.

I got the APP, and in all settings it said it couldn’t make the pdf smaller. I know $3.99 isn’t much, but they went directly to the trash.

I rarely ever leave a review, but in release notes the author said itd mean the world to him and I thought Id take a minute to say how much I value this app. Fact is, its worth every penny and a lot more pennies, quite honestly. It does a remarkable, practically magical job at quickly compressing PDFs without loss of quality. I seriously cant think of anything negative to say about PDF Squeeze. Solid gem and a must-have.

You know how it works. You send a scanned doc to someone and they don’t get it because it’s 8 million megs and email can’t handle that. This app takes unreasonably huge PDF’s and makes them still look great, and saves massives amounts of space so that even large docs like tax returns or loan docs can be emailed. This is a default app for me. It’s worth every penny and great.

Easy to use interface lets you make your your pdfs smaller effortlessly with YOU in control. A perfect fix for MacOs’s tendancy to create bloated pdfs. Worth much more than the asking price.

Easy to use and worth the cost. Not much more to say, folks. Enjoy!

One of the most useful apps on my Mac.

Great simple app, does what it’s supposed to do, shrink PDF files. Lets you control some settings without being complex at all. Results are dramatic, often 70% to 85% size reduction without noticeable loss of quality

This is a single purpose application, and it does a terrific job. Have used it for years now, it’s well supported, updated as needed, love it.

Saves my outbox on an almost daily basis. Highly recommended for business users. I used to spend hours messing around with DPI and quality sliders. Now I just click, drag, crush, and send. Thank you for making this!

PDF Squeezer is a delight: I was trying to send a 19Meg PDF file via email and could not figure out a way to compress it: I googled the problem and this App came up as a possible solution. I took the plunge after reading the positive reviews and sure enough, it delivered exactly what it promises. Simple and effective.

This app does exactly what you want, quickly and easily. It couldn’t really be simpler to work with, and it does its job perfectly. For taking giant PDFs created by Preview and other apps and shrinking them retaining quality so you can email or upload them, you won’t need anything other than this app.

Bought this app and tried it with a 13MB pdf. It couldn’t reduce it even with different settings. Other programs like pdf expert allowed to save as flattened and took it down to 10MB. This app isn’t worth the money.

Works great and has compression options. Just what I was looking for