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LICENSE

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+The MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2019 Fabrice Mouhartem
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

Makefile

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+all: hidepdfads
+
+hidepdfads: src/script.sh presets.txt
+	cat $^ > $@
+
+presets.txt: data/presets.json
+	jq --raw-output '.[] | (.name + " " + .X + " " + .Y + " " + .L + " " + .H + " " + .color + " " + .unit + " " + .format)' < "$^" > "$@"
+
+clean:
+	rm presets.txt
+
+.PHONY: clean all

data/presets.json

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+[
+  {
+    "name" : "rhonexpress",
+    "X" : "15",
+    "Y" : "146.5",
+    "L" : "180",
+    "H" : "90",
+    "unit": "mm",
+    "format" : "a4",
+    "color" : "white"
+  },
+  {
+    "name" : "AF",
+    "X" : "11",
+    "Y" : "18",
+    "L" : "9",
+    "H" : "9",
+    "unit": "cm",
+    "format" : "a4",
+    "color" : "white"
+  },
+  {
+    "name" : "klm",
+    "X" : "11",
+    "Y" : "18",
+    "L" : "9",
+    "H" : "9",
+    "unit": "cm",
+    "format" : "a4",
+    "color" : "white"
+  }
+]

hidepdfads

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+#!/bin/env sh
+:${LATEXCC:=pdflatex}
+
+print_help() {
+  >&2 echo "Usage: $0 <command> [<args>]"
+  >&2 echo -e "\nThis tool uses latex to cover a specific region of a PDF file on every page.\n"
+  >&2 echo "<command> can be:"
+  >&2 echo -e "\thelp:\tdisplay this help message"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tlist:\tlist the different presets"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tpreset:\tuse an existing preset\n\t\targuments: <preset> <infile> <outfile>"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tmanual:\tset coordinates and dimension of the rectangle\n\t\targuments: <infile> <outfile> X Y L H [color=white] [unit=cm] [format=a4]"
+}
+
+gen_pdf() { # arguments: infile outfile X Y L H color unit format
+  if [ $# -ne 9 ]
+  then
+    >&2 echo -e "Function gen_pdf: wrong number of arguments\n"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  infile="$1"
+  outfile="$2"
+  X="$3"
+  Y="$4"
+  L="$5"
+  H="$6"
+  color="$7"
+  unit="$8"
+  format="$9"
+  tmp_dir=`mktemp -d`
+  act_dir=$(pwd)
+
+  cd "$tmp_dir"
+  echo "\\documentclass[$format""paper]{article}" > main.tex
+  cat <<EOB >>main.tex
+\usepackage{tikz}
+\usetikzlibrary{calc}
+\usepackage{pdfpages}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+\begin{document}
+\includepdf[pages={-},% include all pages
+  pagecommand={% is called at the beginning of each inclusion
+      \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
+EOB
+  echo "\\draw[color=$color,fill=$color] (\$(current page.north west) + ($X$unit, -$Y$unit)\$) rectangle ++ ($L$unit, -$H$unit);\\end{tikzpicture}}]{$infile}\\end{document}" >>main.tex
+  cat main.tex
+  $LATEXCC -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex || { >&2 echo -e "\n\n\nLaTeX error during compilation"; rm -r "$tmp_dir"; exit 1; }
+  $LATEXCC -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
+  cp -i main.pdf "$act_dir/$outfile"
+  rm -r "$tmp_dir"
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+  "list")
+    echo -n "Available presets: "
+    preset_list=$(sed '0,/^__DATA__$/d' "$0" | cut -d' ' -f1)
+    echo $preset_list
+    ;;
+  "help")
+    print_help
+    ;;
+  "")
+    print_help
+    ;;
+  "preset")
+    if [ $# -ne 4 ]
+    then
+      >&2 echo -e "preset: wrong number of arguments\n"
+      print_help
+    else
+      read_presets="$(sed '0,/^__DATA__$/d' "$0")"
+      i=0
+      while read -r line
+      do
+        presets[$i]="$line"
+        i=`echo $i + 1 | bc`
+      done <<< "$read_presets"
+      for elts in "${presets[@]}"
+      do
+        x=($elts)
+        [[ "$2" == ${x[0]} ]] && gen_pdf "$3" "$4" "${x[1]}" "${x[2]}" "${x[3]}" "${x[4]}" "${x[5]}" "${x[6]}" "${x[7]}" && exit 0
+      done
+      >&2 echo -e "preset: preset \"$2\" not found\n"
+      print_help
+    fi
+    ;;
+  "manual")
+    if [ $# -lt 7 ]
+    then
+      >&2 echo -e "manual: wrong number of arguments\n"
+      print_help
+    else
+      color=${8:-white}
+      unit=${9:-cm}
+      format=${10:-a4}
+      gen_pdf "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$color" "$unit" "$format" && exit 0
+    fi
+esac
+
+exit
+
+# data format: X Y L H color unit format
+__DATA__
+rhonexpress 15 146.5 180 90 white mm a4
+AF 11 18 9 9 white cm a4
+klm 11 18 9 9 white cm a4

readme.md

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+# hidepdfads
+
+A small tool to hide a recurrent part of a PDF file such as ads on plane tickets for instance.
+
+It is a scripted version of [this blog post](https://blog.epheme.re/latex-ad-block.html).
+
+## Files
+
+The project comprises two main files: scr/script.sh and data/presets.json
+
+These two files are used to generate the `pdf-adblocker` standalone file.
+
+## Build and run
+
+To build, simply run the `make` command in this directory.
+
+The following commands are available:
+```txt
+Usage: hidepdfads <command> [<args>]
+
+This tool uses latex to cover a specific region of a PDF file on every page.
+
+<command> can be:
+	help:	display this help message
+	list:	list the different presets
+	preset:	use an existing preset
+		arguments: <preset> <infile> <outfile>
+	manual:	set coordinates and dimension of the rectangle
+		arguments: <infile> <outfile> X Y L H [color=white] [unit=cm] [format=a4paper]
+```
+
+Example:
+```sh
+$ hidepdfads preset AF plane-ticket.pdf plane-ticket-adfree.pdf
+```
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+To build the PDF, you may need [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) to parse the json database.
+
+The script relies on latex to run. You can specify your favorite latex compiler in the environment variable `LATEXCC`.
+
+## Add presets
+
+Presets are compiled in a json file with the following signature:
+```json
+{
+    "name"   : "preset-name",
+    "X"      : "0",
+    "Y"      : "0",
+    "L"      : "0",
+    "H"      : "0",
+    "unit"   : "mm/cm/in/pt or any LaTeX-compatible unit",
+    "format" : "a4/letter",
+    "color"  : "white or any LaTeX-compatible color"
+},
+```
+
+This data can be filled using for instance `inkscape` to find the location and size of the area to hide.
+
+![inkscape dimensions](https://blog.epheme.re/examples/inkscape-adblock.png)
+
+**Instructions:** After opening your pdf file, start by selecting the ad (purple), you may have to ungroup elements (ctrl+shift+g), then set the dimensions in cm or your favourite length unit (blue) and finally note the dimensions of the ad (red).
+
+Feel free to contribute to this (so far small) database of PDF cleaner presets 😉
+
+## Acknowledgements 
+
+The basecode and principles of the code are highly inspired from [dmenu-emoji](https://github.com/porras/dmenu-emoji).
+
+## TODO
+
+* Simplify the way to fill the database

src/script.sh

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+#!/bin/env sh
+:${LATEXCC:=pdflatex}
+
+print_help() {
+  >&2 echo "Usage: $0 <command> [<args>]"
+  >&2 echo -e "\nThis tool uses latex to cover a specific region of a PDF file on every page.\n"
+  >&2 echo "<command> can be:"
+  >&2 echo -e "\thelp:\tdisplay this help message"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tlist:\tlist the different presets"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tpreset:\tuse an existing preset\n\t\targuments: <preset> <infile> <outfile>"
+  >&2 echo -e "\tmanual:\tset coordinates and dimension of the rectangle\n\t\targuments: <infile> <outfile> X Y L H [color=white] [unit=cm] [format=a4]"
+}
+
+gen_pdf() { # arguments: infile outfile X Y L H color unit format
+  if [ $# -ne 9 ]
+  then
+    >&2 echo -e "Function gen_pdf: wrong number of arguments\n"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  infile="$1"
+  outfile="$2"
+  X="$3"
+  Y="$4"
+  L="$5"
+  H="$6"
+  color="$7"
+  unit="$8"
+  format="$9"
+  tmp_dir=`mktemp -d`
+  act_dir=$(pwd)
+
+  cd "$tmp_dir"
+  echo "\\documentclass[$format""paper]{article}" > main.tex
+  cat <<EOB >>main.tex
+\usepackage{tikz}
+\usetikzlibrary{calc}
+\usepackage{pdfpages}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+\begin{document}
+\includepdf[pages={-},% include all pages
+  pagecommand={% is called at the beginning of each inclusion
+      \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
+EOB
+  echo "\\draw[color=$color,fill=$color] (\$(current page.north west) + ($X$unit, -$Y$unit)\$) rectangle ++ ($L$unit, -$H$unit);\\end{tikzpicture}}]{$infile}\\end{document}" >>main.tex
+  cat main.tex
+  $LATEXCC -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex || { >&2 echo -e "\n\n\nLaTeX error during compilation"; rm -r "$tmp_dir"; exit 1; }
+  $LATEXCC -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
+  cp -i main.pdf "$act_dir/$outfile"
+  rm -r "$tmp_dir"
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+  "list")
+    echo -n "Available presets: "
+    preset_list=$(sed '0,/^__DATA__$/d' "$0" | cut -d' ' -f1)
+    echo $preset_list
+    ;;
+  "help")
+    print_help
+    ;;
+  "")
+    print_help
+    ;;
+  "preset")
+    if [ $# -ne 4 ]
+    then
+      >&2 echo -e "preset: wrong number of arguments\n"
+      print_help
+    else
+      read_presets="$(sed '0,/^__DATA__$/d' "$0")"
+      i=0
+      while read -r line
+      do
+        presets[$i]="$line"
+        i=`echo $i + 1 | bc`
+      done <<< "$read_presets"
+      for elts in "${presets[@]}"
+      do
+        x=($elts)
+        [[ "$2" == ${x[0]} ]] && gen_pdf "$3" "$4" "${x[1]}" "${x[2]}" "${x[3]}" "${x[4]}" "${x[5]}" "${x[6]}" "${x[7]}" && exit 0
+      done
+      >&2 echo -e "preset: preset \"$2\" not found\n"
+      print_help
+    fi
+    ;;
+  "manual")
+    if [ $# -lt 7 ]
+    then
+      >&2 echo -e "manual: wrong number of arguments\n"
+      print_help
+    else
+      color=${8:-white}
+      unit=${9:-cm}
+      format=${10:-a4}
+      gen_pdf "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$color" "$unit" "$format" && exit 0
+    fi
+esac
+
+exit
+
+# data format: X Y L H color unit format
+__DATA__