Adds PDF files handling scripts.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pdf_extract_pages.sh b/pdf_extract_pages.sh
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+++ b/pdf_extract_pages.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+if [[ ! $# -eq 4 ]]
+then
+   echo "usage: $0 <INPUT_FILE> <FIRST_PAGE> <LAST_PAGE> <OUTPUT_FILE>"
+   exit -1
+fi
+
+gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \
+   -dFirstPage=$2 -dLastPage=$3 -sOutputFile=$4 $1
diff --git a/pdf_reduce_size.sh b/pdf_reduce_size.sh
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+++ b/pdf_reduce_size.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+for file in $@; do
+   gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \
+      -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH \
+      -sOutputFile="$(basename "$file" .pdf)_smaller.pdf" "$file"
+done