From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 19:50:47 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 E3DD616A417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814C713C4DD for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.14] (helo=4.mx.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IxSvl-0003qn-VG for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:45 +0100 Received: from rba2c.r.pppool.de ([89.54.186.44]:60293 helo=peedub.jennejohn.org) by 4.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.68 #1) id 1IxSvl-0000ch-NZ for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:45 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:45 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Organization: DENX Softwre Engineering GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: handling pdfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de 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 19:50:48 -0000 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. -- Gary Jennejohn