Optimize PDF files (with Ghostscript or other)

Question

Is Ghostscript the best option if you want to optimize a PDF file and reduce the file size?

I need to store alot of PDF files and therefore I need to optimize and red

Answer 1

I use Ghostscript with following options taken from here.

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \
 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf