ghostscript
When concatenating PDFs into a single file, I tried imagemagick:
convert first.pdf second.pdf third.pdf output.pdf
but the resolution suffered.
This forum suggests that Imagemagick makes use of ghostscript in this action and provides a command that cuts out the middleman:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=temp.pdf pdf1.pdf pdf2.pdf
This worked like a charm, and fast, but I'm not massively happy copypasting commands I'll never remember.
1) record it here for future use
2) alias it, or write a super simple bash script?
3) look into ghostscript and see if I can simplify the command, learn the syntax
convert first.pdf second.pdf third.pdf output.pdf
but the resolution suffered.
This forum suggests that Imagemagick makes use of ghostscript in this action and provides a command that cuts out the middleman:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=temp.pdf pdf1.pdf pdf2.pdf
This worked like a charm, and fast, but I'm not massively happy copypasting commands I'll never remember.
1) record it here for future use
2) alias it, or write a super simple bash script?
3) look into ghostscript and see if I can simplify the command, learn the syntax
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