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Old 07-11-2011
reduce pdf file size through multiple folders

Dear all,
i have a lot of .pdf files that i need to reduce size with pdf2ps and ps2pdf app. I need a script which i can reduce file size of all .pdf files in every subfolder of WORKDIR folder.

folder tree like:

WORKDIR
SUBBWORK DIR1
SUB_SUB_WORKDIR1
1.PDF
2.PDF
3.PDF

SUBBWORK DIR2
SUB_SUB_WORKDIR2
ex.PDF
tx.PDF
rx.PDF

...etc...
Please HELP.
# 2  
Old 07-11-2011
Not sure the pdf2ps command
Code:
find WORKDIR -name "*.pdf" -exec pdf2ps {} {}.ps \;

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