On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > 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? Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) will copy pages from a PDF:
gs -DNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=<N> -dLastPage=<M> \ -sOutputFile=<outfile.pdf> <infile.pdf> -c quit >/dev/null 2>&1 Where <N> and <M> are page numbers, and <outfile.pdf> and <infile.pdf> are the output and original filename respectively. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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