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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to batch pdfjoin based on pdfgrep output Post 302606162 by nopposan on Friday 9th of March 2012 05:11:47 PM

03-09-2012

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printf is nifty

Thanks!

Here's my updated script. I haven't tested it yet as I don't have any practice material at the moment.

Code:

#!bin/bash
# This script is written for files that are named with the pattern
#pg_0001.pdf, with leading zeros.

a=1 #Sets the starting page. 'Could set with user input.
b=$(($a+1))#Sets the next page equal to one more than the starting page.

Filename="pg_"`printf "%04d" $a`".pdf" # This is the filename of the
#starting page. The printf command is used to format the number with
#up to three leading zeros.

until [ $b == 680 ]; do # This line sets the maximum pages to be
#considered for concatenation.
Filename2="pg_"`printf "%04d" $b`".pdf" # This is the filename of the
#next file to be considered for concatenation to the current file.
x=`pdfgrep -C 0 [0-9]\{7\} $Filename | head -n 1` # pdfgrep with
#option to, -C, capture 0 characters other than the 7 digits in the
#employee ID; this is piped to "head" in order to get just the first
#occurrence.
y=`pdfgrep -C 0 [0-9]\{7\} $Filename2 | head -n 1`

if [ "$x" == "$y" ]; then 
    pdfjoin --rotateoversize 'false' $Filename $Filename2 --outfile $Filename # If the employee ID's are equal, then the pdf files
#are concatenated into a new file, which is given the name of the
#first file that's added to.
    rm $Filename2 # If the file is concatenated to a previous
#file, it is removed.
else
cp $Filename Empl_ID_"$x".pdf # Replace page number name with name
#based on Empl_ID.
#rm $Filename # Uncomment to remove the original file.
Filename=$Filename2 # If no match is found and the file is not
#concatenated, then advance the current origination file, Filename, to
#the name of the non-concatenated/non-matching file.
fi

b=$(($b+1)) # Advance the page number of the next file, Filename2.

done

cp $Filename Empl_ID_"$x".pdf # Finally, when all else is done,
#replace page number name with name of last file with one based on
#Empl_ID.

#rm $Filename # Uncomment to remove the original last file.

exit

Last edited by Corona688; 03-09-2012 at 06:32 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please.

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PS2PDF(1)							    Ghostscript 							 PS2PDF(1)

NAME

       ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
       ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf14 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

SYNOPSIS

       ps2pdf  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf12  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf13  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf14  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

DESCRIPTION

       The ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) prod-
       uct: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

       If the output filename is not specified, the output is placed in a file of the same name with a '.pdf' extension  in  the  current  working
       directory.  Either  the	input filename or the output filename can be '-' to request reading from stdin or writing to stdout, respectively,
       when used as a filter.

       The three scripts differ as follows:

       -      ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf14 will always produce PDF 1.4 output (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output.	However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility  level
	      of the output, use ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13 or ps2pdf14, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the command line.

       There  are  some limitations in ps2pdf's conversion. See the HTML documentation for more information. A large number of Adobe Distiller(TM)
       parameters which can be used to control the conversion are also documented there, including instructions for  generating  PDF/X	and  PDF/A
       documents.

OPTIONS

       The ps2pdf scripts use the same options as gs(1).

EXAMPLES

       Converting a figure.ps to figure.pdf:

	      ps2pdf figure.ps

       A conversion with more specifics:

	      ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.ps proof.pdf

       Converting as part of a pipe:

	      make_report.pl -t ps | ps2pdf -dCompatibility=1.3 - - | lpr

SEE ALSO

       gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
       Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation

BUGS

       See http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.07.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  This manpage by George Ferguson.

9.07								 12 February 2013							 PS2PDF(1)