From 194156d862a4e6a4c5c58355f2a976aa83bd668a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Porada <sporada@uni-bielefeld.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 16:43:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Rework how pdf files are created

---
 file-setup | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/file-setup b/file-setup
index 17abb8a..df02006 100755
--- a/file-setup
+++ b/file-setup
@@ -28,14 +28,22 @@ def parse_arguments():
 def merge_images(input_dir, output_dir, output_file_base, zip):
     try:
         os.mkdir(output_dir)
+        tmp_dir_path = os.path.join(input_dir, 'tmp')
+        os.mkdir(tmp_dir_path)
     except FileExistsError:
         pass
     cmd = 'ls -Q -v "{i}"/*.* > "{i}"/file_list.txt'.format(i=input_dir)
     subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
-    cmd = 'convert @"{}"/file_list.txt -compress LZW "{}"/"{}".pdf'.format(input_dir, output_dir, output_file_base)  # noqa
+    cmd = ('mogrify -compress LZW -format pdf ',
+           + '-path @"{o}" "{i}"/file_list.txt').format(i=input_dir,
+                                                        o=tmp_dir_path)
     subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
-    cmd = 'rm "{}"/file_list.txt'.format(input_dir)
+    cmd = 'rm "{i}"/file_list.txt'.format(i=input_dir)
     subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
+    cmd = ('pdftk "{tmp_dir_path}"/*.pdf cat ',
+           + 'output "{o}"/"{ofb}".pdf').format(i=tmp_dir_path,
+                                                o=output_dir,
+                                                ofb=output_file_base)
     if zip is not None:
         # Remove .zip file extension if provided
         if zip.endswith('.zip'):