shrinkpdf.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 2016, Moritz Kaufmann
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10450120/optimize-pdf-files-with-ghostscript-or-other
# http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf
# Licensed under the 3-clause BSD license:
#
# Copyright (c) 2014, Alfred Klomp
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# See following links on more comments on ghostscript compression
#
# * https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/456896/9075
# * https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/245801/9075

# try to keep bookmarks - see https://superuser.com/a/812739/138868:
# -dPDFSETTINGS=/default

# -c hint is by https://stackoverflow.com/a/28194386/873282

shrink ()
{
	gs					\
	  -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER		\
	  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite			\
	  -dCompatibilityLevel=1.7		\
	  -dPDFSETTINGS=/default		\
	  -dEmbedAllFonts=true			\
	  -dSubsetFonts=true			\
	  -dCompressFonts=true			\
	  -dNOPAUSE				\
	  -dAutoRotatePages=/None		\
	  -dDetectDuplicateImages=true		\
	  -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 "$OSIZE" ]; then
		echo "Input smaller than output, doing straight copy" >&2
		echo "$ISIZE vs $OSIZE"
		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]"
}

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

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

check_smaller "$IFILE" "$OFILE"