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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500
> From: Chuck Robey <chu...@telenix.org>
> Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file?
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> 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.
> > 
> > There is a pdfmerge in /usr/ports/print, but no pdfsplit.
> > 
> 
> It's a very junky way to do it (but the only way I know), use pdf2ps
> to convert the pdf to postscript, then you stand at least a good
> chance of doing the split, which many utilities allow.  You could even
> do it graphically via gv.  The problem with this (and the reason it
> might well fail anyhow) is because some things that pdfs do aren't
> implemented in any standard postscript level I ever heard of.  It
> depends how many of the more recent extensions to pdf are being used.
> I've done this, *sometimes*.
> 
> Because the pdf spec is fully published, it might one day allow
> someone to write a splitter, but because the spec is SO enormous,
> maybe they won't, either.  Actually, that's a really good notion ... I
> need to give it some thought.

It's not quite the same thing, but pdfnup from the

/usr/ports/print/pdfjam 

package allows page selections from the contributing pdfs.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam

Andrew
 
> > -- Charlie
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