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Created April 19, 2017 21:40
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Compress PDFs in bash
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compress.sh
# compress PDF. Needs ghostscript package.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -DBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf
# compress all PDFs in dir
for file in `ls *.pdf`;
do
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -DBATCH -sOutputFile=${$file%.pdf}-c.pdf $file
done
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