Combines all pdf files on the current folder to a single pdf (ghostscript)

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Combining pdfs usingghostscript

Combines all pdf extension files to single pdf. optimises pdf size.

uses ghostscript

combinepdfs.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#@ Get pdf filelist 
ls|grep \.pdf > filelist.pdf 

## section to anipulate individual pdfs
## In this case last line is removed
filelist=""
mkdir -p temp
while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ]
do
  pdftk $p cat 1-r2 output temp/$p
  filelist="$filelist temp/$pf"
done < filelist.txt

## Merge PDF
# cd temp ##Move to target folder where the manipulated pdfs are there
filelist=`ls |grep \.pdf`
mkdir -p output
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
    -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
    -sOutputFile=../output/full.pdf \
    $filelist
# cd ..

merge-howard-marks-newsletters.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#@ Get pdf filelist 
# ls|grep \.pdf > filelist.pdf 

## section to anipulate individual pdfs
## In this case last line is removed
# filelist=""
# mkdir -p temp
# while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ]
# do
#   pdftk $p cat 1-r2 output temp/$p
#   filelist="$filelist temp/$pf"
# done < filelist.txt

## Merge PDF
cd temp
filelist=`ls |grep \.pdf`
mkdir -p output
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
    -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
    -sOutputFile=../output/full.pdf \
    $filelist
cd ..