PDF reduce size of file

Pour réduire la taille d'un pdf, en utilisant ghostscript :

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=OUT.pdf CV.pdf

Source : http://www.fiat-tux.fr/fr/2010/12/reduire-la-taille-dun-pdf/ 

pdf and images without X

This software allows you to view pdf, images, etc. without launchning th X server. It just uses the framebuffer :-)


You can find it here :

• Main page :
  http://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/
  http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida


• Git Repository
  

  git://git.kraxel.org/fbida
  ssh://git.kraxel.org/public/git/fbida




• Releases (tar.gz)

PDF merge & reduce size

Merge PDF with pdftk

pdftk 00-page1.pdf 01-page2.pdf 03-page3.pdf cat output OUT.pdf 

Reduce the size of the PDF

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

(source : http://www.mnt-tech.fr/blog/gnulinux/comment-reduire-la-taille-dun-fichier-pdf-en-ligne-de-commande-sous-linux/ )

PDF tool kit : pdftk

pdftk is a toolkit available for example on ubuntu repositories. It seems to be from the "PDF Hacks" book.


Main Webpage :
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/


List of the features found on the website (Latest Version: 1.41, Released: November 28, 2006) :

• Merge PDF Documents
• Split PDF Pages into a New Document
• Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
• Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
• Encrypt Output as Desired
• Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
• Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
• Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
• Update PDF Metadata
• Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
• Unpack PDF Attachments
• Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
• Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
• Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Imprimer des transparents

Imprimer des transparents

Dont un script que j'avais écrit il y a (très) longtemps pour imprimer des transparents :

#!/bin/bash

# convert .pdf slides into ps files with 4 slides/page

# takes   : PDF documents in landscape (-l) or portrait (-p) orientation
# returns : PS document with 4 slides per page [file names $PREFIX*.ps]
#
# pages to be read in rows: [1] [2]
#                           [3] [4] 

PREFIX=p4-
FORMAT=a4
MODULO=2:1,0
#

while getopts "lpb:f:h" opt ; do
    case $opt in 
  f)FORMAT=$OPTARG;;
  p)echo "Potrait mode";   MODULO=4:0,2,1,3;;#MODULO=4:1,3,2,0 ;;
 l)echo "Landscape mode"; MODULO=2:1,0 ;;
  b)PREFIX=$OPTARG;;
 h)
cat < < EOF
convert .pdf slides into ps files with 4 slides/page
usage   : $0 [-f] [-l|-p] [-p]
options :
-l          landscape document          (default)
-p          portrait document
-f=FORMAT   paper format                (default is a4)
-p=PREFIX   prefix appened to filename  (default is "p4-")
-h          this help message

For a fast use, just use 'pdf4ps file1.pdf file2.pdf', 
and it will produce 'p4-file1.ps' and 'p4-file2.ps'.
EOF
     exit;;

 ?)echo "Error : bad option. Try $0 -h"
     exit;;
    esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND - 1))

for i in "$*" ; do
    if [ ! -f "$i" ]; then
 echo "No file $i"
    else
 OUTFILE=$PREFIX`basename "$i" .pdf`.ps
 if [ ! -f "$OUTFILE" ]; then
     pdftops "$i" - \
  | pstops "$MODULO" \
  | psnup -4 -d1 -m0.2 -s0.5 -c \
  | psresize -P"$FORMAT" -p"$FORMAT">"$OUTFILE"
 else
     echo "$PREFIX version of \"$i\" already exist ($OUTFILE)"
 fi
    fi
done

# Corentin Mehat oct2005-oct2006
# please send all bugs & ameliorations

# pdftops $i - \      # softs are to use ps files, convert the file to ps
# | pstops 2:1,0 \                        # reorder mod 2 : odd, even
# | psnup -4 -d1 -m0.2 -s0.5 -c \         # border=1 margin=0.2 scale=0.5
# | psresize -Pletter -pletter>$OUTFILE   # recenter 

Splitting and Merging pdfs

Pdfsam : PDF split and merge.

Open source tool to split and merge pdf

http://www.pdfsam.org/