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Expand Up @@ -53,6 +53,29 @@ easy to install), but the author of pdfsizeopt doesn't have the free time to
create and maintain such a port. As an FYI, see
https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/issues/154 about porting to Apple Silicon.

## Running on GitHub Codespaces

Codespaces is free on GitHub thus you can use pdfsizeopt without installing anything.

1) Click on the green Code button and select Codespaces. You can go with the default Codespace.
2) When the Codespace opens, click on Terminal and paste this in. Alternatively if you fork, the pdfsizeopt repo, you can save the below as `setup.sh` and run `sh setup.sh`.
```
mkdir ~/pdfsizeopt
cd ~/pdfsizeopt
wget -O pdfsizeopt_libexec_linux.tar.gz https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/releases/download/2023-04-18/pdfsizeopt_libexec_linux-v9.tar.gz
tar xzvf pdfsizeopt_libexec_linux.tar.gz
rm -f pdfsizeopt_libexec_linux.tar.gz
wget -O pdfsizeopt.single https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pts/pdfsizeopt/master/pdfsizeopt.single
chmod +x pdfsizeopt.single
ln -s pdfsizeopt.single pdfsizeopt
```
3) The right-click and upload your PDF file.
4) Now you can run
```
~/pdfsizeopt/pdfsizeopt input.pdf output.pdf
```
5) Download your file by right-clicking on the file.

## Installation instructions and usage on Linux

There is no installer, you need to run some commands in the command line to
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