[ubuntu-in] Great script for pdf's

Ramnarayan.K ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 19:47:16 UTC 2011


Hi

a few days back i was grappling with two problems (both separately)

one - to easily compress pdf's (make them smaller)

and two - try to decrypt some permissions on some pdf's (this
particular set of files did not allow merging, splitting etc - they
had some restrictions on them and every time i tried pdftk, pdf
shuffler, pdfsam etc i was confronted with a  need for a password)

the latter problem i could not figure easily. The only solution was to
print the pdf's as pdf's and then do the merging - it resulted in huge
files.

The first problem came later and i found this script which allowed one
to very easily compress pdf's.

On a whim i tried it on these restricted files and voila it worked -
not only did the file sizes come down the permissions got blown away
and am able to do what i want with the restricted files

any way the result of blowing away of permissions is a *very good side
effect* for al already good script

so here's the link to the script - it uses ghostscript (gs)
1. Nautilus Script To Compress PDF Files ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux
blog. at <http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/nautilus-script-to-compress-pdf-files.html>


enjoy, both its intended and unintended

-- 
Ram
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