Open a job list to begin
A PDF Compressor job list is a plain-text .dat file describing one or more jobs. Drop one anywhere on this page, use Open, or load the Example to look around.
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read and written entirely in your browser.
How this tool treats your file
Untouched lines are kept exactly
The format’s escape rules are not symmetric: #X is not a defined sequence, so it decodes to itself but would re-encode as ##X. Decoding and re-encoding the whole file would quietly corrupt it. Only the value you actually edit is rewritten — indentation, alignment and trailing comments all survive.
A byte order mark breaks the file
PDF Compressor does not skip a UTF-8 BOM. The mark runs into the entry-start keyword, the loader stops recognising the line, and the job runs on factory defaults with no error at all. Notepad’s “UTF-8 with BOM” produces one. This tool warns on open and always saves without it, so opening and saving repairs the file.
Checks the API cannot do
The API models a single job, so it never sees the rest of the file. Check file looks across entries: two jobs reading one input folder, one job writing where another reads, a listFlag that differs, more than one listdefault. All entries in a list start together, so those are races, not style issues.
Nothing is uploaded
There is no server to send anything to. Your job list is parsed, edited and saved in the browser, and closing the tab is all the cleanup there is. Settings come from a bundled description of all 347 documented keys.