May 2012 – VisualStation's Notepad

May 9, 2012 by visualstation 0

How to add the page number on a PDF file

A friend had a small problem to add a page number on a PDF with a lot of pages. After a quick chat, I have built this script:

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Brice Lilot
# Contact: brice_lilot [at] visualstation [dot] be
# Website: http://www.visualstation.be/
# Revision: 0.1
# Last modification:
#   * 2012-05-09:
#    - First shot !
#

if [ -d $1 ]
then
	printf "The directory already existn"
	cd $1
	rm -rf *.jpg	
else
	mkdir $1
	cd $1
fi

whereismyfont=`find /usr/share/fonts -iname "DejaVuSans.ttf"`

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=jpeg -dJPEGQ=95 -r600x600 -sOutputFile=./$1-page-%d.jpg ../$1.pdf &gt;&gt; /dev/null

cFiles=`find . -iname "*.jpg" | wc -l`
for (( i=1; i &lt;= $cFiles; i++))
do
	mogrify -quality 100% -font $whereismyfont 
		-pointsize 90 -draw "gravity southeast fill #000000 text 600,300 '$i/$cFiles'" 
		$1-page-$i.jpg
		printf "Page $i converted and numberedn"
done

param=""
for (( i=1; i &lt;= $cFiles; i++))
do
   dimension=$(identify -format "%[fx:(w)] %[fx:(h)]" "$1-page-${i}.jpg")
   param="${param} &gt;&gt;/PageSize [${dimension}]&lt;&lt; setpagedevice ($1-page-${i}.jpg) viewJPEG showpage"
done

gs 
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite 
  -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress 
  -o "$1_final.pdf" 
   viewjpeg.ps 
  -c "${param}"

#!/bin/bash

# Author: Brice Lilot

# Contact: brice_lilot [at] visualstation [dot] be

# Website: http://www.visualstation.be/

# Revision: 0.1

# Last modification:

# * 2012-05-09:

# - First shot !

if [ -d $1 ]

then

printf "The directory already existn"

cd $1

rm -rf *.jpg

else

mkdir $1

cd $1

whereismyfont=`find /usr/share/fonts -iname "DejaVuSans.ttf"`

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=jpeg -dJPEGQ=95 -r600x600 -sOutputFile=./$1-page-%d.jpg ../$1.pdf >> /dev/null

cFiles=`find . -iname "*.jpg" | wc -l`

for (( i=1; i <= $cFiles; i++))

mogrify -quality 100% -font $whereismyfont

-pointsize 90 -draw "gravity southeast fill #000000 text 600,300 '$i/$cFiles'"

$1-page-$i.jpg

printf "Page $i converted and numberedn"

done

param=""

for (( i=1; i <= $cFiles; i++))

dimension=$(identify -format "%[fx:(w)] %[fx:(h)]" "$1-page-${i}.jpg")

param="${param} >>/PageSize [${dimension}]<< setpagedevice ($1-page-${i}.jpg) viewJPEG showpage"

done

-sDEVICE=pdfwrite

-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress

-o "$1_final.pdf"

viewjpeg.ps

-c "${param}"

Have fun !

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