From 92bcf622a947de72a0fad09fd78fd2dd9412ef95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Ulrich <christian@ulrich.earth>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:08:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add script for reducing PDF size

---
 pdf/reduce_pdf_size.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 pdf/reduce_pdf_size.sh

diff --git a/pdf/reduce_pdf_size.sh b/pdf/reduce_pdf_size.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5556ea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdf/reduce_pdf_size.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# PDFSETTINGS:
+#   -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen lower quality, smaller size (72 dpi)
+#   -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook better quality, larger size (150 dpi)
+#   -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress same as Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting (300 dpi)
+#   -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer same as Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting (300 dpi)
+#   -dPDFSETTINGS=/default useful across a wide variety of uses, which may result in a larger output file 
+if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE"
+  exit 1
+fi
+gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$2" "$1"