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using ghostscript to compress PDF filesize
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ghostscript-pdf.md

Compress PDF filesize

$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \ -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dColorImageResolution=150 \ -sOutputFile=output.pdf someBigFile.pdf

Combine/Merge PDFs

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf source1.pdf source2.pdf source3.pdf

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