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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:47:19 +0200
From:      Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can i split a pdf file?
Message-ID:  <200901270947.19599.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
In-Reply-To: <20090126071705.GQ1313@ms.unimelb.edu.au>
References:  <20090126071705.GQ1313@ms.unimelb.edu.au>

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On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500
> > From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
> > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file?
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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> > Charlie Kester wrote:
> > > On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote:
> > >>     Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ]
> > >>     chunks?  Or are there open source tools out there that i can
> > >> build?
[various suggestions including pdfmerge and psnup from ports]

Alternatively, if you have a reasonably complete TeX installation (I'm still 
using teTeX), check whether you have texexec installed - which can extract 
pages from PDFs.

Jonathan



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