andyrbell

# use ImageMagick convert
# the order is important. the density argument applies to input.pdf and resize and rotate to output.pdf
convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf

matsen

#!/bin/sh

# Convert all arguments (assumed SVG) to a TIFF acceptable to PLOS
# Requires Inkscape and ImageMagick 6.8 (doesn't work with 6.6.9)

for i in $@; do
  BN=$(basename $i .svg)
  inkscape --without-gui --export-png="$BN.png" --export-dpi 300 $i
  convert -compress LZW -alpha remove $BN.png $BN.tiff
  mogrify -alpha off $BN.tiff