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Compress PDF file with ghostscript

$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/default -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Compression levels:

  • screen
  • ebook
  • printer
  • prepress
  • default

Split PDF into separate pages with pdftk

$ for ((i = 0; i <= PAGES_COUNT; i++)); do pdftk input.pdf cat $i output page_$i.pdf dont_ask; done

Merge separate pdf files into one file

$ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=result.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
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