From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 15:17:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A763016A401 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B5413C45B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 5191 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2007 15:17:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (216.186.148.249) by smtp3.knology.net with SMTP; 23 Mar 2007 15:17:36 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id CC3752841F; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:17:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:17:36 -0500 From: David Kelly To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070323151736.GA30217@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <4602FAB7.5070306@netfence.it> <200703221722.53178.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <4603D60B.7050608@netfence.it> <20070323141802.GB29514@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <4603ED49.2050107@netfence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4603ED49.2050107@netfence.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: Split a PDF page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:17:38 -0000 On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:07:53PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > David Kelly wrote: > > >Tuning in late has anyone suggested *printing* the PDF to PDF using a > >PDF viewer? Print only the ranges of pages you are interested in. At > >worst print to PS file and then convert PS to PDF. > > > >I do this fairly often in Preview on MacOS X. > > I can easily do that even with ghostscript. > The problem is not that I want to split a document into single pages, > but that I want to split a page in two. > Someone printed two A4 n-up on an A3; I want the two A4 separated again. Even so, set the output scaling and orientation that multiple sheets are needed to print the current sheet. Then capture the sheet/page you desire and discard the rest. Or you could do it the Old Fashioned Way we used about 20 years ago: Print to PS and hack the PS with vi. Each n-up "page" is probably nested within a scaled region. IIRC the red Adobe Postscript book was important to have handy. Would guess some of the smart context-sensitive text editors know Postscript and can block select nested sections. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.