From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 17:00:01 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 3849216A402 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B0913C4B0 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (a17-128-113-37.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2NH00IU010051 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id CB3AC30442 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-aee62bb00000538d-0c-46040790dd40 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 2A955300BF for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <4603DF69.3080108@netfence.it> References: <4602FAB7.5070306@netfence.it> <4603DF69.3080108@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9A05FD38-A057-4825-8009-DF842B4F3E82@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:59:59 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== 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 17:00:01 -0000 On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> Acrobat, maybe? >> /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer > > Hm, when I try and start it I get: > > %AcrobatViewer > expr: illegal option -- r > usage: expr [-e] expression Does doing a: > Please advise all your users intended to use Acrobat Viewer to create > "~/AcrobatFonts" directory, which is neccessary for Acrobat Viewer > to normally > save its configuration data. ...help? Or maybe "env EXPR_COMPAT=yes /usr/local/bin/ AcrobatViewer"...? >> Alternatively, if you convert the PDF file to PostScript, (GNU) >> enscript ought to have an "N-up" filter which can deal with A3 -> >> A4 conversions and so forth: >> /usr/ports/print/enscript-a4 > > AFAIK enscript starts from text, not from a PostScript page... > Besides, if the N-up filter you say is options -U, it just put more > pages into one, which is the opposite of what I want to do. > > Maybe I didn't get it right. How should I use it? This is a reasonable question. :-) At one point, Adobe's enscript utility not only dealt with ASCII text, it could do some manipulations of existing PostScript docs, and the psnup utility would not only do 1->2 or 1->4 layouts, it could extract pages back (ie, 2->1 and so forth). It also handled page size conversions, such as A3->A4. However, I recall doing a lot of this PostScript manipulation on a NeXT which had native Display PostScript imaging, and it might be the case that Adobe's PostScript manipulation tools were more capable on that platform then they would be elsewhere. Also note that what is in ports is the GNU reimplementation of Adobe's enscript, and it may or may not be as capable.... -- -Chuck