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Convert PDFs to a Classic Compatible format (PDF 1.2)

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You must have Brew installed.
Use brew to install ghostscript.

The following command will convert all PDFs in the current and subdirectories to PDF 1.2 with a "2" at the end of the file. You can then delete all .pdf files and rename all .pdf2 files to .pdf, or move them, whatever you may want to do.
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find ./ -name "*.pdf" -execdir ps2pdf12 {} {}2 \;
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