diff --git a/bin/compress-pdf b/bin/compress-pdf
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+    echo >&2 "errror: wrong number of arguments"
+    echo >&2 "usage: compress-pdf <input> <output>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=$2 $1