Compress PDF files on Mac
PDF files with photos and scans can be enormous — a 10-page report with photos might be 50MB. Picmal compresses PDFs on your Mac by optimizing embedded images while keeping text, fonts, and vector graphics perfectly crisp.
PDF files with photos and scans can be enormous — a 10-page report with photos might be 50MB. Picmal compresses PDFs on your Mac by optimizing embedded images while keeping text, fonts, and vector graphics perfectly crisp.
Download and open Picmal on your Mac.
Drag and drop your PDF files or entire folders into Picmal.
Set your preferred quality level and click Compress to reduce file sizes.
| File type | Original | Compressed | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report with photos (10 pages) | 48 MB | 12 MB | 75% smaller |
| Scanned document (5 pages) | 22 MB | 5.5 MB | 75% smaller |
| Presentation export (20 slides) | 35 MB | 8 MB | 77% smaller |
| Product catalog (50 pages) | 120 MB | 28 MB | 77% smaller |
Most email services limit attachments to 25MB. Compress your PDF reports and proposals to fit within limits without splitting into multiple emails.
Many CMS platforms and cloud storage services have file size limits. Compressed PDFs upload faster and stay within size caps.
Scanned PDFs are notoriously large. Compressing the embedded scan images can reduce archive sizes by 70-80% with acceptable quality.
If you host downloadable PDFs (guides, whitepapers, catalogs), compressing them improves download speed and user experience.
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Open Picmal, drag your PDF in (or a whole folder of them), pick a quality level, and click Compress. Picmal optimizes the embedded images and saves a smaller PDF, all on your Mac with nothing uploaded.
No. Picmal guarantees the result is never larger than the original. If a PDF is already as small as it can get, Picmal keeps your existing file instead of writing a bigger one.
Picmal compresses the embedded images within PDF files. Text and vector graphics remain untouched, so documents stay crisp and readable.
PDF compression can reduce file sizes by 30-80% depending on how many images are embedded and their original quality. Image-heavy PDFs see the biggest reductions.
No. Picmal only compresses the embedded images within PDFs. Text, fonts, and vector graphics remain at full quality.
Yes. Picmal supports batch processing — drag and drop all your PDF files and compress them in one go.
Yes. Compressed PDFs maintain their layout, fonts, and text quality. Only the embedded images are optimized, so print output looks great.
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