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Deal with PDF on macOS using ghostscript
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README.md

To use it, install it using homebrew:
brew install ghostscript

Then use one of theese commands for your needs:

  1. Compress PDF:
    gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
  2. Merge PDF:
    gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf source1.pdf source2.pdf source3.pdf
  1. https://blog.omgmog.net/post/compressing-pdf-from-your-mac-or-linux-terminal-with-ghostscript/
  2. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/293198/321160
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