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

Ghostscript comes with two useful utilities: pdfopt and ps2pdf14. Both can be used to optimise PDF file(s) but on some occasions size of "optimised" file may be bigger than original.