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Academic convert script for annoying papers from DVI, PS and gzip to PDF
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # In the perfect world, all academic papers | |
| # are in standards-compliant PDF with proper metadata. | |
| # In practice they come in all sizes and shapes: | |
| # PostScript, DVI, or gzipped versions of those. | |
| # This script homogenizes a directory with papers | |
| # by converting them all to PDFs | |
| # | |
| convert_all() | |
| { | |
| SUFFIX=$1 | |
| CONVERTOR=$2 | |
| PATTERN="s/\.$SUFFIX$/\.pdf/" | |
| find . -type f -name "*.$SUFFIX" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' FILENAME; do | |
| PDFNAME=$(echo $FILENAME | sed -e $PATTERN) | |
| echo "$FILENAME -> $PDFNAME" | |
| $CONVERTOR $FILENAME $PDFNAME | |
| done | |
| find . -type f -name "*.$SUFFIX" -delete | |
| } | |
| find . -type f -name "*.gz" | xargs gunzip | |
| convert_all ps ps2pdf | |
| convert_all dvi dvipdf |
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