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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Function to display usage information and exit
+usage() {
+	echo "Usage: $0 input.pdf output.pdf [-r resolution] [-h]"
+	echo ""
+	echo "Options:"
+	echo "-r     Set the image resolution (default is 150ppi)"
+	echo "-h     Display this help message"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# Default settings
+RESOLUTION=150
+
+# Parse command-line options
+while getopts ":r:h" opt; do
+	case ${opt} in
+	r)
+		RESOLUTION=$OPTARG
+		;;
+	h)
+		usage
+		;;
+	\?)
+		echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
+		exit 1
+		;;
+	:)
+		echo "Option -$OPTARG requires an argument." >&2
+		exit 1
+		;;
+	esac
+done
+
+shift $((OPTIND - 1))
+
+# Check if the correct number of arguments are provided after parsing options
+if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
+	usage
+fi
+
+INPUT_FILE="$1"
+OUTPUT_FILE="$2"
+
+# Check if input file exists
+if [ ! -f "$INPUT_FILE" ]; then
+	echo "Input file '$INPUT_FILE' does not exist."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# Extract directory and base name from output file path
+OUTPUT_DIR=$(dirname "$OUTPUT_FILE")
+OUTPUT_BASENAME=$(basename "$OUTPUT_FILE")
+
+# Create the output directory if it doesn't already exist
+mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+
+# Run Ghostscript command with specified resolution
+gs \
+	-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
+	-dCompatibilityLevel=1.7 \
+	-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
+	-dDownsampleMonoImages=true \
+	-dDownsampleColorImages=true \
+	-dDownsampleGrayImages=true \
+	-dColorImageResolution=$RESOLUTION \
+	-dGrayImageResolution=$RESOLUTION \
+	-dMonoImageResolution=$RESOLUTION \
+	-dPreserveOPIRequests=false \
+	-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
+	-dSubsetFonts=true \
+	-dEmbedAllFonts=false \
+	-sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGB \
+	-dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE \
+	-sOutputFile="$OUTPUT_FILE" "$INPUT_FILE"
+
+# Check if Ghostscript command was successful
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+	echo "Error: Ghostscript failed to process the file '$INPUT_FILE'."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Successfully converted '$INPUT_FILE' to '$OUTPUT_BASENAME'"