debian-gnome/tools/shrinkpdf

#!/bin/sh

# http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf
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shrink ()
{
	gs					\
	  -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER		\
	  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite			\
	  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3		\
	  -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen			\
	  -dEmbedAllFonts=true			\
	  -dSubsetFonts=true			\
	  -dAutoRotatePages=/None		\
	  -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic	\
	  -dColorImageResolution=$3		\
	  -dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic	\
	  -dGrayImageResolution=$3		\
	  -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic	\
	  -dMonoImageResolution=$3		\
	  -sOutputFile="$2"			\
	  "$1"
}

check_smaller ()
{
	# If $1 and $2 are regular files, we can compare file sizes to
	# see if we succeeded in shrinking. If not, we copy $1 over $2:
	if [ ! -f "$1" -o ! -f "$2" ]; then
		return 0;
	fi
	ISIZE="$(echo $(wc -c "$1") | cut -f1 -d\ )"
	OSIZE="$(echo $(wc -c "$2") | cut -f1 -d\ )"
	if [ "$ISIZE" -lt "$OSIZE" ]; then
		echo "Input smaller than output, doing straight copy" >&2
		cp "$1" "$2"
	fi
}

usage ()
{
	echo "Reduces PDF filesize by lossy recompressing with Ghostscript."
	echo "Not guaranteed to succeed, but usually works."
	echo "  Usage: $1 infile [outfile] [resolution_in_dpi]"
}

IFILE="$1"

# Need an input file:
if [ -z "$IFILE" ]; then
	usage "$0"
	exit 1
fi

# Output filename defaults to "-" (stdout) unless given:
if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
	OFILE="$2"
else
	OFILE="-"
fi

# Output resolution defaults to 72 unless given:
if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then
	res="$3"
else
	res="72"
fi

shrink "$IFILE" "$OFILE" "$res" || exit $?

check_smaller "$IFILE" "$OFILE"