v2.1.0 LongOpts

v2.1.0 LongOpts Additions:

• Now accepts Long Options (case-insensitive)
• File names/folders don't need to be at the end no more
• Detecting permission errors
• Better options and argument validation
• New Option -n, --no-overwrite - aborts if output target exists.
• Rebuilt Flip-Detection
• New Paper Type 'source' wildcard, to run resizing without resizing paper: -r source
• Auto-modes do not fallback to defaults on error anymore, error printed, execution aborted
• Rebuilt help info
• Many new auxiliary functions
• Few new execution flags
• More error detection
• Able to read files with stupid pdf extensions like .Pdf
• Removes stupid pDf extensions on automatic naming
• Better Verbosing messages
• And many other minor changes

v2.0.5 Additions:

• GS calls have exclusive functions for easy output capturing
• Capturing possible GS errors and printing to stderr as debug message

v2.0.4 Fix:

• Fix to finalStatus verbose message

v2.0.3 Additions:

• -V (print version) option was broken since 2.0.0. Was only working with verbose set before it.
  • Workaround for versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2: $ ./pdfScale.sh -v -V
  • Fixed!
• Improvement in grep method by using -m 1 to return only first occurrence so we don't have to cut the first line. May improve the speed for page-size detection of big PDF files.

v2.0.0 Additions:

• Complete code refactoring
• Option -r to Resize PDF Paper
  • By Standard Sizes
  • By Custom Size
• Mixed execution mode (resize+scale)
• Option -i to Print PDF information
• Option -p to Print Tables with Paper Sizes
• Option -f to adjust Resizing Flip Detection
  • auto, forced, disabled
• Option -a to adjust GS Auto-Rotation
  • pagebypage, none, all
• Much better code organization
• Better dependency checking
• Better validations
• cat is not used anymore.
• head is not used anymore
• Better -v verbose execution information
• Many internal helper functions
• Simple documentation added
• Revision of help information