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Compressing PDFs on Macs Let’s say you have a pdf file with large embedded images in…

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:15:00 +0100

Compressing PDFs on Macs

Let’s say you have a pdf file with large embedded images in it and you’d like to reduce the filesize a bit, here’s how to do it using the command line.

Install ghostscript via Homebrew:

brew install gs

Create a shell script, let’s call it pdf2smol:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
 echo "Usage: pdf2smol input.pdf [output.pdf] [resolution (default: 150)]"
 exit
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
 output="output.pdf"
else
 output=$2
fi

if [ -z "$3" ]; then
 resolution=150
else
 resolution=$3
fi

set -x

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook \
-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dColorImageResolution=$resolution \
-sOutputFile="$output" "$1"

mologie/NVWebDriverLibValFix

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:58:00 +0100

Loading Unity Projects with Visual Studio for Mac Sometimes Visual Studio for Mac…

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:43:00 +0100

Loading Unity Projects with Visual Studio for Mac

Sometimes Visual Studio for Mac won’t open the project solution files generated by Unity. You are greeted with the following error message: Unknown solution item type: {E097FAD1-6243-4DAD-9C02-E9B9EFC3FFC1} The problem is that the solution file contains a GUID that the VS won’t recognize. To solve it, open the Extensions in Visual Studio, then under “Game Development” enable “Visual Studio for Mac Tools for Unity”. That should solve it.

atMonitor

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:01:00 +0100

Quick Look source code preview & syntax highlighting on Mac Without much rambling, a…

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:15:00 +0200

Quick Look source code preview & syntax highlighting on Mac

Without much rambling, a solution for the problem presented in the title: http://code.google.com/p/qlcolorcode/

To change the color style (theme), use the following command:

defaults write org.n8gray.QLColorCode hlTheme [theme name]

Where [theme name] can be:

acid, bipolar, blacknblue, bright, contrast, darkblue, darkness, desert, easter, emacs, golden, greenlcd, ide-anjuta, ide-codewarrior, ide-devcpp, ide-eclipse, ide-kdev, ide-msvcpp, ide-xcode, kwrite, lucretia, matlab, moe, navy, nedit, neon, night, orion, pablo, peachpuff, print, rand01, seashell, slateGreen, the, typical, vampire, vim-dark, vim, whitengrey, zellner