fixpdf


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#!/bin/bash
# Copyright © 2024 DiffieHellman
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# Return invalid usage if there aren't at least 2 args
[ "$#" -gt 0 ] || exit 2

for pdf ; do
        # GNU GhostScript can repair corrupted pdf's with broken xref's etc that are outputted by proprietary software, plus it can also reduce the size of excessively large pdf's
        gs -o "${pdf%.*}.gs.pdf" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress "$pdf"
done