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February 26, 2014 13:22
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Simple bash script to compress pdf files using Ghostscript
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# Compress a pdf using gs. | |
# Requires in input the compression type, the name of the file to compress and the name of the output file (in this order). | |
# Example: | |
# pdfcompress screen MyHighResDocument.pdf MyLowResDocument.pdf | |
# | |
# Possible values for compression types are: | |
# screen , selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “Screen Optimized” setting. | |
# ebook , selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “eBook” setting. | |
# printer , selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “Print Optimized” setting. | |
# prepress , selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller “Prepress Optimized” setting. | |
# default selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file | |
# | |
# link: http://lucacerone.net/2014/01/reduce-pdf-size-from-command-line/ | |
COMMAND="gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/$1 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=\"$3\" \"$2\"" | |
echo $COMMAND | |
sh -c "$COMMAND" |
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