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Shell utility script to compress images into reasonably sized PDFs
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Usage $0 img1.png img2.tif img3.pdf"
echo "Requires ghostscript, imagemagick"
fi
for file in "$@"
do
convert "$file" "$file.pdf"
pdf2ps "$file.pdf"
rm "$file.pdf"
ps2pdf "$file.ps" "${file%.*}.pdf"
rm "$file.ps"
done
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