dip-maker script

dip-maker.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Requires enscript, ps2pdf, LibreOffice, pdftk
# brew install enscript ghostscript pdftk-java
# brew install --cask libreoffice

# Also, if you're on macOS, this needs gnu find
# brew install coreutils, then:
# export PATH="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"

currentdir=$(pwd)
cd $1
title=$(basename $(pwd))
mkdir access

# list file names and modified date/times with sorting
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+#%Tb %Td %TH:%TM\t%p\n" | sort -rn | cut -d# -f2- | head -8 > directory_listing.txt

# make pdf from output of previous command
# this is currently using a postscript pipeline, could also use pandoc or a2x
# see https://www.baeldung.com/linux/convert-text-to-pdf
enscript --header="$title" --word-wrap directory_listing.txt -p directory_listing.ps;
ps2pdf directory_listing.ps $title.pdf
rm directory_listing.txt
rm directory_listing.ps

# convert all docs to PDFs
for x in $(find $1 -not -type d)
do
	/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf $x --outdir access
done

# make each PDF contain a single bookmark to first page
cd access
tempPDF=`mktemp`
for i in *.pdf
do
    bookmarkTitle=`basename "$i" .pdf`
    bookmarkInfo="BookmarkBegin\nBookmarkTitle: $bookmarkTitle\nBookmarkLevel: 1\nBookmarkPageNumber: 1"
    pdftk "$i" update_info_utf8 <(echo -en $bookmarkInfo) output $tempPDF verbose
    mv $tempPDF "$i"
done
cd ..

# concatenate the PDFs
pdftk access/*.pdf cat output access/combined.pdf

# merge front page together with output PDF, clean up
pdftk $title.pdf access/combined.pdf cat output final.pdf
rm $title.pdf
rm access/*.pdf
mv final.pdf $title.pdf
cp $title.pdf access/$title.pdf

cd $currentdir