pdf compression

compressPDF.bat

@echo off
setlocal

:: Prompt user to select a PDF using PowerShell
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('powershell -command "[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.windows.forms') | Out-Null; $OpenFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog; $OpenFileDialog.InitialDirectory = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'); $OpenFileDialog.Filter = 'PDF Files (*.pdf)|*.pdf'; $OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null; $OpenFileDialog.FileName"') do set "pdfPath=%%i"

:: Exit if no file was selected
if "%pdfPath%"=="False" (
    echo No file selected. Exiting...
    exit /b
)

:: Get the directory and base name of the selected PDF
for %%F in ("%pdfPath%") do (
    set "dirPath=%%~dpF"
    set "baseName=%%~nF"
)

:: Set the output filename with "-compressed.pdf"
set "outputPath=%dirPath%%baseName%-compressed.pdf"

:: Call Ghostscript to compress the PDF
"C:\Program Files\gs\gsX.XX\bin\gswin64c.exe" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="%outputPath%" "%pdfPath%"

echo Compression complete. The compressed file has been saved as: %outputPath%
pause