From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 13:06:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8540D10656C9 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:06:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (cl-43.dus-01.de.sixxs.net [IPv6:2a01:198:200:2a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55128FC0C for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: from roadrunner.spoerlein.net (e180153120.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.153.120]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n07D6eaJ067312 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:06:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: from roadrunner.spoerlein.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roadrunner.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n07D6aIl004664 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:06:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Received: (from uqs@localhost) by roadrunner.spoerlein.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n07D6aNQ004663; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:06:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uspoerlein@gmail.com) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:06:36 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein To: Oliver Lehmann Message-ID: <20090107130636.GB1462@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Oliver Lehmann , ports@freebsd.org References: <20090106171154.16f10a0a.lehmann@ans-netz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090106171154.16f10a0a.lehmann@ans-netz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for a tool which handles pdf files X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:06:45 -0000 On Tue, 06.01.2009 at 17:11:54 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bunch of postcript files (generated by gschem) in various > pagesizes (A0-A2). I want to have the generated PS files belonging to the > same device in a multipaged PDF. Until now I'm cat-ing the ps files > together doing some awk magic to get a multipage ps. I then convert the > multipage PS file via ps2pdf to a multipage PDF. My problem now is, that > ps2pdf can only set a general pagesize - so A0 for all pages for example > - as far as I know. > > I'm now looking for a tool which creates a multipage PDF with different > pagesizes each page (if wanted). Someone told me pdftk could do this but > I run an amd64 so no gcj/pdftk for me... > > Someone knows another tool which would fit here? Depending on your definition for "fit": I have used pdflatex and the pdfpages package to cat, rotate, N-up and what-not several PDF documents. Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.