Bash script to reduce PDF filesize.

shrinkpdf

#!/bin/bash

# shrinkpdf - Reduce PDF filesize.
# Copyright (C) 2012 Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
if [ $# -lt 2 ] || [ $# -gt 3 ]; then
	echo usage: shrinkpdf \<filename\> \<resolution\> \[\<output\>\]
	echo
	echo For example: shrinkpdf input.pdf 72
	exit
fi
 
if [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
	echo "$1" does not exist. Exiting.
	exit
fi
 
if [ $# = 3 ]; then
	NEWNAME=$3
else
	NEWNAME=`basename "$1" .pdf`_shrinked.pdf
fi
 
if [ "$1 " = "$NEWNAME " ]; then
	echo Input and output are identical. Won\'t overwrite---exiting.
	exit
fi
 
if [ -e "$NEWNAME" ]; then
	echo "$NEWNAME" exists. Delete? \(y/n\)
	read ANS
	if [ "$ANS " = "y " ]; then
		rm "$NEWNAME"
	else
		exit
	fi
fi
 
gs	-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET \
	-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
	-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
	-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \
	-dEmbedAllFonts=true \
	-dSubsetFonts=true \
	-dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dColorImageResolution=$2 \
	-dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dGrayImageResolution=$2 \
	-dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dMonoImageResolution=$2 \
	-sOutputFile="$NEWNAME" \
	 "$1"
 
echo $1: $((`wc -c "$1" | cut -d \  -f 1` / 1024 )) kb
echo $NEWNAME: $((`wc -c "$NEWNAME" | cut -d \  -f 1` / 1024 )) kb