compress-pdf.sh (raw) (882B)
1 #!/bin/sh 2 # DESCRIPTION: i do this often enough to write a script but not often enough to memorize the arguments 3 # DEPENDENCIES: ghostscript 4 # ARGUMENTS: $1 = input file, [$2 = output file (default: compressed.pdf)] 5 # e.g.$: compress-pdf my-pdf.pdf my-pdf-compressed.pdf 6 7 if [ -z $1 ] || [ -z $2 ] || [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then 8 echo "Usage: compress-pdf [SETTINGS] INPUT [OUTPUT]" 9 echo "" 10 echo "for SETTINGS options, see https://web.mit.edu/ghostscript/www/Ps2pdf.htm#Options" 11 echo "INPUT should provide the filepath of a PDF to compress" 12 echo "OUTPUT should provided the filepath of the compressed PDF (default: ./compressed.pdf)" 13 echo "" 14 echo "Dependencies: ghostscript" 15 exit 16 fi 17 18 in="$1" 19 out="compressed.pdf" 20 if [ -e $2 ]; then out="$2"; fi 21 22 gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=$1 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=$out $in 23