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Compressing pdf files with ghostscript. (The ebook option, I think, offers the best compression without loss of quality.)
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compr.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
# compress all pdf files in a folder -- 2018 ckunte
for i in *.pdf; do gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=compr_$i $i; done
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pdf-compess.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# ref: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/142455/xetex-xdvipdfmx-option-to-reduce-all-graphics-to-300dpi
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file-compressed.pdf file.pdf
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