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Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file?
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On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:51:56 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
>On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>>	Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ]
>>	chunks?  Or are there open source tools out there that i can build?  
>
>pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) does both splits and merges of pdf
>files, but it doesn't seem to be in the FreeBSD ports system.
>

Here's a suite of commandline tools for manipulating pdf's, in case you
don't want a gui:

http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/

This one uses Java, like pdfsam and pdftk.  Like pdfsam, it doesn't seem
to be in the ports tree.

-- Charlie