#!/bin/sh

## The simplest shell script in the world to shrink your PDFs (as in reduce filesize) under Linux with Ghostscript
# Source: http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf/
## Put this script file in a folder containing the large pdf to be converted. 
## Make this script xecutable. Then run:
## ./shrinkpdf.sh yourfile.pdf
## This produces a shrunken file named out.pdf in the current directory.
### Default resolution is 72. Modify this according to your need.

gs	-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
	-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
	-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 \
	-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \
	-dEmbedAllFonts=true \
	-dSubsetFonts=true \
	-dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dColorImageResolution=72 \
	-dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dGrayImageResolution=72 \
	-dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic \
	-dMonoImageResolution=72 \
	-sOutputFile=out.pdf \
	 $1