PDF Optimize

Optimize with quality profiles (pdf-optimize)

Optimize with quality profiles

Part of the Universal PDF Management & Creation Skill Repository. Category: PDF Management. Every skill is individually callable (INDIVIDUAL MODE) and may also be invoked automatically by the orchestrator (SYSTEM MODE).

When to use

Choose the right quality/size tradeoff for the destination.

Operations

• maximum_quality
• balanced
• small_size
• web_optimized
• archive_optimized
• never silently destroy quality

Engine (what actually executes this)

universal_pdf/core.compress:compress_pdf(profile=...)

All heavy lifting is done on disk / one page at a time by the shared engine — never by loading the document into an LLM context.

Tools & graceful degradation

• Preferred tool: PyMuPDF
• Fallback: structural-only cleanup

If the preferred backend is unavailable the skill transparently uses the fallback or reports a documented limitation. It never reports success when an operation did not actually happen.

Validation (this skill attaches checks to its Outcome)

openable; size reported per profile

Related skills

pdf-compress, pdf-validation, pdf-orchestrate

Example requests it handles

• "Optimize for archival (maximum quality)."
• "Produce a small-size version for email."

Notes

Provenance: outputs cite their source page/section where relevant.