From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 18:00:48 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 82CCE16A46B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:00:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DA613C4D1 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A67B6.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.103.182]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lATHY5wo046138; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:34:20 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lATHY47C015377; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:34:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost.js.berklix.net [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lATHZGqb039519; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:35:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200711291735.lATHZGqb039519@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas In-reply-to: <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> Comments: In-reply-to Giorgos Keramidas message dated "Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:15 +0200." Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:35:16 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: Chuck Robey , 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: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:00:48 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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'' :) /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps # ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15/+CONTENTS:bin/pdf2ps then gs allows printing of page numbers then print PS or /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf # /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.