From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 2 18:11:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921E116A418 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F7613C455 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 28533 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2007 18:11:06 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Dec 2007 18:11:05 -0000 Message-ID: <4752F4CA.5050805@chuckr.org> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:11:09 -0000 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500 > Bill Moran wrote: > >> In response to Giorgos Keramidas : >> >>> On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also >>>> have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at >>>> home-reading documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would >>>> be able to perform cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 >>>> pages there, until I put together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back >>>> and read it. What I can't do is print just a few pages out of several >>>> 800-plus page specs, and perform paper cut'n'pasting. >>> If you find a way to 'save' only parts of a PDF document, i.e. pages >>> 5-10, 17 and 25 in a separate file, then the ``pdfjam'' port includes >>> a utility called ``pdfjoin'' :) >> You could print the desired pages to .ps files, use ps2pdf to convert >> them and then pdfjam to combine them. >> >> It's enough of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not. >> > > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. > I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, always seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read them. So, xpdf wouldn't be my first choice. I use kpdf to view pdfs for that particular reason, and onthe same document, kpdf does a distinctly better job, If kpdf uses xpdf's engine, then it must find some way to pick better fonts for itself, it actually does look better.