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NigelThorne/collate_and_rescale_pdf.sh

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Shell script to take two pdfs (one all odd pages, one all even) and merge them then rescale the images to reduce the file size for emailing.
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collate_and_rescale_pdf.sh
# Example script to collate and reduce size of scanned pdf. Idea taken from Stackoverflow answers
# interleave two pdfs as one
pdftk A=Emma\ front\ half.pdf B=Emma\ back\ half.pdf shuffle A B output Emma.pdf
# convert to postscript
pdf2ps Emma.pdf Emma.ps
# convert back with defined resolution 150
ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dDownsampleColorImages=false -dColorImageResolution=150 -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic Emma.ps Emma_ps150b.pdf
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