Não é exatamente o truncamento grosseiro do arquivo, mas algo semelhante pode ser feito com as imagens c44 do djvu:
$ c44 q.ppm q.djvu -bpp 0.05,0.1,0.15,0.20,0.25,0.30,0.35,0.40,0.45,0.50,0.55,0.60,0.65,0.70
$ djvuextract q.djvu BG44=data.iff
BG44=data.iff --> "data.iff" (54286 bytes)
$ djvudump q.djvu | grep INFO
INFO [10] DjVu 1023x599, v24, 100 dpi, gamma=2.2
$ djvumake 5.djvu INFO=1023,599,100 BG44=data.iff:5
$ djvumake 10.djvu INFO=1023,599,100 BG44=data.iff:10
$ djvumake 1.djvu INFO=1023,599,100 BG44=data.iff:1
$ ls -s --block-size=1 1.djvu 5.djvu 10.djvu
45056 10.djvu 8192 1.djvu 24576 5.djvu