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searls/flatten-pdf.sh

Created October 25, 2013 22:28
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Flatten PDF files with annotations to lock them down. Requires ghostscript (`brew install ghostscript`)
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flatten-pdf.sh
#!/bin/bash
FILE="$1"
OLD_FILE="$1-og.pdf"
mv "$FILE" "$OLD_FILE"
pdf2ps "$OLD_FILE" - | ps2pdf - "$FILE"
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