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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: handling pdfs?
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In response to Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>:

> On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> 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.

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