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Created February 4, 2023 22:26
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PDFA creation
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pdfa.sh
# one-liner to convert PDF to PDFA using ghostscript to meet NSF PAR requirements
gs -dPDFA -dNOOUTERSAVE -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGB -dUseCIEColor -sColorConversionStrategy=UseDeviceIndependentColor -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -sOutputFile=${fn/.pdf/_PDFA.pdf} $fn
# loop to do that to all files in a directory
for fn in *.pdf; do if [[ $fn != *pdfa* ]]; then if [ ! -f ${fn/.pdf/_PDFA.pdf} ]; then echo $fn; gs -dPDFA -dNOOUTERSAVE -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGB -dUseCIEColor -sColorConversionStrategy=UseDeviceIndependentColor -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -sOutputFile=${fn/.pdf/_PDFA.pdf} $fn; fi; fi; done
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