Densify VS xdm

Compare Densify vs xdm and see what are their differences.

Densify

A GTK+ GUI Application written in Python that simplifies compressing PDF files with Ghostscript (by hkdb)
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Densify xdm
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0.0 3.0
16 days ago 4 months ago
Python C#
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Densify

Posts with mentions or reviews of Densify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-08.
  • Document Scanner 42: Post processing scripts to compress PDFs?
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 15 May 2023
    The tutorial mentions Densify. It is GUI front-end for GS, and an interesting tool. The AppImage works well, but it is much slower than running GS from the commandline. https://github.com/hkdb/Densify
  • PDF file SPEED optimization.
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 3 May 2023
    I thought there may be optimization potential in your PDF file, so I downloaded a version from the Internet (377MB, 1493 pages) and ran it through ghostscript with the parameters the tool Densify uses:
  • How to make sh script stop and print error or continue/skip one step if a directory is already there.
    16 projects | /r/bash | 8 Jul 2022
    sudo pamac -S rclone fd firejail keepassxc thunderbird terminator vim simple-scan sane-airscan xsane sane wireguard-tools gpg-crypter htop bmon ghostscript digikam borg libreoffice-fresh ncdu bleachbit rmlint displaycal avahi nss-mdns gnome-keyring kleopatra luminancehdr grep vivaldi vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs discord rsync rkhunter jack2 audacity clementine p7zip ghostscript gimp gzip handbrake kcm-wacomtablet kdiff3 kid3 krusader kwallet-pam kwalletmanager luminancehdr mpv obs-studio vlc rawtherapee signal-desktop simple-scan skanlite speedtest-cli syncthing tree ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation ttf-opensans unrar unzip veracrypt yakuake qemu-emulators-full qemu-full qbittorrent psensor pv python python-capng python-defusedxml python-llfuse python-packaging python-pip python-pyqt5 pass blender inkscape curl jq fuse2 fuse3 fuse-common libwacom zsh evolution hunspell hunspell-en_us aspell aspell-en kmail kontact kaddressbook korganizer kdepim-addons echo "pamac installations done" ################################################################################ ### Install AUR with yay packages yay ffmpg-amd-full-git yay corectrl yay wireguard-dkms yay timeshift yay timeshift-autosnap yay appimagelauncher yay balena-etcher yay brave-bin yay profile-sync-daemon-brave yay google-earth-pro yay stellarium yay pyfuse3 yay libwacom yay kcm-wacomtablet yay wacom-utility-git yay brother-cups-wrapper-common yay brother-dcpl2550dw yay brother-lpr-drivers-common yay input-wacom-dkms yay mailspring yay obs-v4l2sink-git yay python-pyfuse3 yay rdfind yay reload-wacom-after-suspend echo "yay - AUR installations done" ################################################################################ ### Download AppImages to /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-Dwnld # Librewolf wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/24386000/packages/generic/librewolf/101.0.1-1/LibreWolf.x86_64.AppImage echo "Librewolf dwnld done" # Tutanota wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://mail.tutanota.com/desktop/tutanota-desktop-linux.AppImage echo "Tutanota dwnld done" # Joplin app wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/releases/download/v2.8.8/Joplin-2.8.8.AppImage echo "Joplin-app dwnld done" # Densify pdf compressor wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/hkdb/Densify/releases/download/v0.3.1/Densify-v0.3.1-x86_64.AppImage echo "Densify dwnld done" # fre:ac - music converter wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/releases/download/v1.1.6/freac-1.1.6-linux-x86_64.AppImage echo "fre:ac dwnld done" # Notion-enhanced - markdown notetaking app wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/notion-enhancer/notion-repackaged/releases/download/v2.0.18-1/Notion-Enhanced-2.0.18-1.AppImage echo "Notion-enhanced dwnld done" # Obsidian -- markdown txt editor wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/download/v0.14.15/Obsidian-0.14.15.AppImage echo "Obsidian dwnld done" # Simple note wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/releases/download/v2.21.0/Simplenote-linux-2.21.0-x86_64.AppImage echo "Simple-note dwnld done" # Siril - atstro photo editor wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://free-astro.org/download/Siril-1.0.3-x86_64.AppImage echo "Siril dwnld done" # Exodus - crypto wallet wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://downloads.exodus.com/releases/exodus-linux-x64-22.6.17.zip echo "Exodus dwnld done" # Teamviewer wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer_amd64.tar.xz echo "Teamviewer dwnld done" # Tor-Browser - torproject.org wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/11.0.14/tor-browser-linux64-11.0.14_en-US.tar.xz echo "Tor-Browser dwnld done" # XDM - xtreme download manager wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://github.com/subhra74/xdm/releases/download/7.2.11/xdm-setup-7.2.11.tar.xz echo "XDM dwnld done" # startools - astro photo editing program (paid) wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://download.startools.org/StarTools_1_8_527_MR2.zip echo "Startools dwnld done" # PDF-studio - Linux pdf editor that I have pro verison of wget -nc -P /home/$USER/Downloads/AppImages-dwnld https://download.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/PDFStudio_linux64.sh echo "PDF-Studio dwnld done" echo "All AppImage Downloads Compleated" ################################################################################
  • Alternative to Adobe Acrobat for PDF
    1 project | /r/privacy | 5 May 2021
    Densify - GUI for compressing PDF file sizes. I recommend the epub setting.
  • PDF Compression software
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 3 Mar 2021
    check out densify - github and article

xdm

Posts with mentions or reviews of xdm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Densify and xdm you can also consider the following projects:

cpdf - A script to simplify compressing PDF file size with GhostScript

idm-trial-reset - Use IDM forever without cracking

notion-repackaged - notion executables with the notion-enhancer embedded & a vanilla port of the official app to linux

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

simplenote-electron - Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux

pyLoad - The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

freac - The fre:ac audio converter project

Novel-Grabber - Novel-Grabber can download novels from pretty much any webnovel and lightnovel site.

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Universal-Bypass - Don't waste your time with compliance. Universal Bypass circumvents annoying link shorteners.

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

impartus-downloader - Download Impartus lectures, convert to mkv for offline viewing.