From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 17:59:05 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 013CF16A420 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:59:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD3A13C45A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:59:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile-rio.ondsl.gr [83.235.57.37]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lASHwOq9018234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:53 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lASHwI0H018867; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lASHwFRY018866; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.999, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.40, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers 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: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:59:05 -0000 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'' :)