blag: opmizing PDFs: add `-compress jpeg` note from Marcus

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@@ -344,6 +344,17 @@ offset if the image ratio is not quite exact:
 With that approach, I could reduce the size of my PDF from 250 MB with
 losslessly compressed images to 38 MB with DCT compression.
 
+*Another update (2023):* Marcus notified me that it is possible to use
+ImageMagick's `-compress jpeg` option, this way we can leave out the
+intermediate step and convert PNM to PDF directly:
+
+    $ convert image*.pnm -compress jpeg -quality 85 output.pdf
+
+You can also play around with the `-quality` parameter to set the JPEG
+compression level (100% makes almost pristine, but huge images; 1% makes very
+small, very blocky images), 85% should still be readable for most documents
+in that resolution.
+
 Too long, didn’t read
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