Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Acrobat, maybe? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Hm, when I try and start it I get: %AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression Does doing a: Please advise all your users intended to use

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Don Hinton wrote: Try PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... Thanks, but this doesn't seem to do what I need. It can put multiple pages on one, but cannot split them back. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Chuck Swiger wrote: Acrobat, maybe? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Hm, when I try and start it I get: %AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression % Alternatively, if you convert the PDF file to PostScript, (GNU) enscript ought to have an N-up filter which can

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:28:43PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Don Hinton wrote: Try PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... Thanks, but this doesn't seem to do what I need. It can put multiple pages on one, but cannot split them back. Tuning in late has anyone suggested *printing*

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Don Hinton
On Friday 23 March 2007 08:28, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Don Hinton wrote: Try PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... Thanks, but this doesn't seem to do what I need. It can put multiple pages on one, but cannot split them back. I have seen a script that does this, but you may need to

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:07:53PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: David Kelly wrote: Tuning in late has anyone suggested *printing* the PDF to PDF using a PDF viewer? Print only the ranges of pages you are interested in. At worst print to PS file and then convert PS to PDF. I do this

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
David Kelly wrote: Tuning in late has anyone suggested *printing* the PDF to PDF using a PDF viewer? Print only the ranges of pages you are interested in. At worst print to PS file and then convert PS to PDF. I do this fairly often in Preview on MacOS X. I can easily do that even with

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/03/23 7:07, Andrea Venturoli seems to have typed: I can easily do that even with ghostscript. The problem is not that I want to split a document into single pages, but that I want to split a page in two. Someone printed two A4 n-up on an A3; I want the two A4 separated again. A crude

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:52:16AM -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2007/03/23 7:07, Andrea Venturoli seems to have typed: I can easily do that even with ghostscript. The problem is not that I want to split a document into single pages, but that I want to split a page in two. Someone

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
David Kelly wrote: I think you can set the scaling and page orientation in ghostscript so that the current single page requires multiple sheets to print. This is what I tried to do right at the beginning (eventually going through pdf - ps conversion would be fine). However I couldn't find

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Peter A. Giessel wrote: A crude hack would be to use gs to convert it to a high resolution image file, use gimp or something like that to split it into two image files, then use gs to put them back together. Again, crude hack and resolution would be lost, but it may work for you. I did that

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Acrobat, maybe? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Hm, when I try and start it I get: %AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression Does doing a: Please advise all your users intended to use Acrobat Viewer to create

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
David Kelly wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:28:43PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Don Hinton wrote: Try PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... Thanks, but this doesn't seem to do what I need. It can put multiple pages on one, but cannot split them back. Tuning in

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Bogecho
Hello. I've got a PDF document with two side-by-side pages in A3 format. Is there a way I can get the two single A4 pages, either as subsequent pages of a new document or as different new documents? Anything in the port tree? bye Thanks av. ___

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Andrea Venturoli wrote: The problem is not that I want to split a document into single pages, but that I want to split a page in two. Someone printed two A4 n-up on an A3; I want the two A4 separated again. Looks like the pstops utility from /usr/ports/print/psutils-a4

Split a PDF page

2007-03-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a PDF document with two side-by-side pages in A3 format. Is there a way I can get the two single A4 pages, either as subsequent pages of a new document or as different new documents? Anything in the port tree? bye Thanks av.

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I've got a PDF document with two side-by-side pages in A3 format. Is there a way I can get the two single A4 pages, either as subsequent pages of a new document or as different new documents? Anything in the port tree? Acrobat, maybe?

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-22 Thread Don Hinton
On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:52, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've got a PDF document with two side-by-side pages in A3 format. Is there a way I can get the two single A4 pages, either as subsequent pages of a new document or as different new documents? Anything in the port tree? Try