pdflat

#!/bin/bash

[ -z "$1" ] && echo "Please enter a filename. Exiting..."
[ -z "$1" ] && exit 1

dir="$(mktemp -ud | sed 's/tmp\./pdflat./')"
[ -d "${dir}" ] || mkdir "${dir}"

echo
echo -e "\e[1mThis will flatten the following PDFs:\e[0m"
echo
for p in "$@"; do echo "$p"; c=$((c+1)); done
echo
echo -e "\e[1mCount: $c\e[0m"
echo
echo -e "\e[1m\e[32mPress [Enter] to continue... \e[31m[Ctrl+C to cancel]\e[0m"
read
printf "Flattening... "

for a in "$@"; do mv "${a}" "${dir}/${a}"; done

for b in "${dir}/"*".pdf"; do
  cc=$((cc+1))
  printf "\rFlattening... $cc of $c"
  gs -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPreserveAnnots=false -sOutputFile="$(basename "${b}")" "$b"
done

echo ". Done."
echo

echo -e "Originals can be found here: \e[93m${dir}\e[0m"
echo
echo -ne "\e[32mMove ${dir} to \"orig\" folder? [y/N] \e[0m"
read yn
echo

[[ "${yn,,}" == y* ]] && {
  [ -d orig ] || mkdir orig
  rsync -a "${dir}/" orig/ && rm -r "${dir}"
  echo "Moved ${dir} to orig, done."
  echo
}