Ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite fundamentally re-encodes fonts, causing
garbled text regardless of parameters. This cannot be fixed.
New approach:
- Local: qpdf-only lossless structural optimization (5-30% savings,
zero corruption risk — fonts and images completely untouched)
- Cloud: iLovePDF API integration (auth → start → upload → process →
download) with 3 levels (recommended/extreme/low), proper image
recompression without font corruption
Frontend: 3 modes (cloud recommended, cloud extreme, local lossless).
Docker: ILOVEPDF_PUBLIC_KEY env var added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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