volumetric-regimes-book/command-line/tools/README.md

Tools used for Volumetric Regimes

Before you can run these scripts, they will need to be made executable.

chmod +x *.sh

OSP-tools.pdfutils: color_convert.sh

Convert PDF RGB to only-Black

This will convert an RGB PDF (even if it appears only black) to input-K.pdf.

./color_convert.sh black input.pdf input-K.pdf

Link: http://osp.kitchen/tools/pdfutils/

OSP-tools.pdfutils: rgb2cmyk.sh

Convert PDF from RGB to CMYK

Dependencies:

• gs (Ghostscript)
• pdftops
• control.txt
• apple_to_jNP_photo.icc
• apple_to_jNP_neutral.icc

This will convert a PDF to input-cmyk.pdf.

Usage:

./rgb2cmyk.sh input.pdf

Link: http://osp.kitchen/tools/pdfutils/

OSP-tools: resample.sh

Dependencies:

• gs (Ghostscript)

This will change the resolution of a PDF.

Usage:

./resample input.pdf 150

Custom VR tools: make-images-bw.sh

Dependencies:

• imagemagick

This will create a copy of an image folder, with all images converted to BW.

Usage:

./make-images-bw.sh ./images-folder/

Custom VR tools: convert-to-PDFX-3-2002.sh

Dependencies:

• texlive-xetex (xelatex)

This will convert a PDF into the PDFX/3:2002 format + edit the PDF metadata.

Edit PDF metadata:

Open the xelatex template (`xelatex-PDFX-3-2002.template.tex`) and edit the metadata on line 7-12.

Usage:

convert-to-PDFX-3-2002.sh input.pdf output.pdf

Other useful tools

• Check metadata of PDF: pdfinfo filename.pdf
• Check color space of PDF: pdfimages -list filename.pdf