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PDF compression with gs (works well on Linux Mint)
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pdf_compress.sh
# Compressing to EBook quality (between "screen" and "preprocess")
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
# Black and white output, with custom resolution
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/default -dCompressFonts=true -r150 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sColorConversionStrategy=Gray -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
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