`make print` incorrect about ua-thesis-template HOT 3 CLOSED

I wonder if the script actually makes a difference, i.e. is it in fact cheaper to print? If not we should probably drop it entirely to keep things simple (and lose a few dependencies).

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I think I'm going to print Goodfellow's Deep Learning this week. So I can give it a test run and conclude which of these is cheaper to print, if there is a difference at all.

• original PDF
• gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=${OUT}/thesis-print.pdf ${OUT}/matter.pdf
• gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=${OUT}/thesis-print.pdf ${OUT}/matter.pdf + simplify-colors.sh

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@fabiomaia

The gs command seems to be only setting the compatibility level of the PDF, which some readers may otherwise complain about. It shouldn't affect costs.

The simplify-colors may affect them, depending on how the printer used determines how many color pages there were. If it's a human counting them this should be irrelevant. If it's some professional printer which automatiaclly counts them, then it should.

Also, commit 8ae1d36 should fix the script.

I won't close this issue yet as I'm looking for an alternative to do this without relying on simplify-colors.

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