Primepdf

Pros: File sizes dropped significantly while charts, images, and text stayed crisp. A 35MB presentation came down to under 4MB without any visible quality loss on screen or in print across all twelve pages.

Cons: An option to choose between compression levels would add useful control. Right now it auto-selects for you, which works fine most of the time but limits flexibility for users who want specific output sizes.

Overall: Needed to email a large proposal to a client with a strict attachment cap. Ran it through here, file shrunk well under the limit, nothing looked different when opened on the other end 😊

Pros: It took just seconds to drag and drop multiple PDFs to get one single PDF. Order of file placement was easily adjustable and the merging process had not resulted in any formatting problems or page loss.

Cons: Preview thumbnails during merge could load a bit faster for image-heavy documents. With dense files it takes a moment before all pages render, which slows down rearranging when you're working through a big batch.

Overall: Was required to merge eight different vendor contracts into one file for our compliance team. PrimePDF performed flawlessly, retained all formatting, allowed reordering of pages before downloading.