Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:17:36 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Split a PDF page Message-ID: <20070323151736.GA30217@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <4603ED49.2050107@netfence.it> References: <4602FAB7.5070306@netfence.it> <200703221722.53178.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <4603D60B.7050608@netfence.it> <20070323141802.GB29514@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <4603ED49.2050107@netfence.it>
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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.
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