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bencholmes/pdf-colour2grayscale.sh

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Bash script to convert a PDF from colour to gray scale.
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pdf-colour2grayscale.sh
fileName=$(basename $1)
directory=$(dirname $1)
gs \
-sOutputFile="$directory/${fileName%.*}-grayscale.pdf" \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \
-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
-dAutoRotatePages=/None \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dBATCH \
"$1"
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