Add new script to downsample PDF files.

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/localpdf2pdfscreen b/localpdf2pdfscreen
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+PRG="$0"
+
+showhelp() {
+	cat <<EOF
+Usage:   $PRG INFILE [ OUTFILE ]
+
+If missing, OUTFILE is INFILE.pdf (ie. double pdf extension).
+
+Examples:
+    $PRG newspaper.pdf newspaper_screenready.pdf
+
+EOF
+}
+
+exit1() {
+	echo >&2 "ERROR: $1"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+	showhelp
+	exit1 "Not enough parameters"
+fi
+
+
+infile="$1"
+tmpfile=$(mktemp -t "$PRG.XXXXXXXXXX") || exit 1
+outfile="${2:-$infile.pdf}"
+
+[ ! -e "$outfile" ] || exit1 "Output file already exists"
+
+pdftops -paper match "$infile" "$tmpfile"
+ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen "$tmpfile" "$outfile"