mergepdf.sh

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#
# Usage:
# ./mergepdf Example
# >> Example.pdf
# 
# Run inside a directory with PDFs named like page1.pdf page2.pdf...
#
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FILENAME=$1
echo "Creating $(echo $FILENAME)_raw.pdf...";
pdftk *.pdf output `(echo $FILENAME)`_raw.pdf
echo "Reducing filesize..."
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/default -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -dDetectDuplicateImages -dCompressFonts=true -r300 -sOutputFile=`(echo $FILENAME)`.pdf `(echo $FILENAME)`_raw.pdf
echo "Done!"
echo " "
echo $(pwd)/$(echo $FILENAME).pdf
echo " "
exit 0;