https://github.com/jishanshaikh4/shrinkpdf

Reduce size of PDF (compress) using GhostScript at bash terminal
https://github.com/jishanshaikh4/shrinkpdf

bash bash-script pdf shell shell-script

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Reduce size of PDF (compress) using GhostScript at bash terminal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jishanshaikh4/shrinkpdf
• Owner: jishanshaikh4
• Created: 2019-11-29T05:12:20.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-07T16:58:10.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-04T01:37:04.378Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: bash, bash-script, pdf, shell, shell-script
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 14.6 KB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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## Shrinkpdf

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Reduce size of PDF (compress) using Ghostscript at terminal.

### Execution

Move the shrinkpdf.sh to your system execution folder (e.g. /bin/ in Linux distro). Give it permissions to execute

  ``chmod +x ~/bin/shrinkpdf.sh``

  

**First parameter (`input.pdf`):** filename of the PDF that is to be converted

**Second parameter (`output.pdf`):** filename of the converted PDF

**Third parameter:** The DPI (resolution) for the output PDF. Default value: 72. For more compression, lower DPI is better but the quality will be worse.

Run it as follows:

    ~/bin/shrinkpdf.sh input.pdf output.pdf

  

    ~/bin/shrinkpdf.sh input.pdf output.pdf 100

    ~/bin/shrinkpdf.sh input.pdf output.pdf 120

  

If you don't want to install shrinkpdf in the system, just run

    bash shrinkpdf.sh input.pdf output.pdf 72

#### Credits

https://bash.cyberciti.biz/file-management/linux-shell-script-to-reduce-pdf-file-size/