Re: Split a PDF page
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 Acrobat Viewer to create ~/AcrobatFonts directory, which is neccessary for Acrobat Viewer to normally save its configuration data. ...help? Nope. Or maybe env EXPR_COMPAT=yes /usr/local/bin/AcrobatViewer...? I don't get that error anymore, but I don't get anything else either. The app does not start. Thanks anyway. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 deal with A3 - A4 conversions and so forth: /usr/ports/print/enscript-a4 AFAIK enscript starts from text, not from a PostScript page... Besides, if the N-up filter you say is options -U, it just put more pages into one, which is the opposite of what I want to do. Maybe I didn't get it right. How should I use it? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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* 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. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 tweak it. You can find it on on of Doug Schmidt's pages: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++/ The script was contributed by Eric Rosenthal. I havent' used it, so YMMV. hth... don bye av. -- Don Hinton don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu or hintonda at gmail.com Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University tel: 615.480.5667 or 615.870.9728 pgpVTKIOBX0eB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Split a PDF page
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 fairly often in Preview on MacOS X. 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. Even so, set the output scaling and orientation that multiple sheets are needed to print the current sheet. Then capture the sheet/page you desire and discard the rest. Or you could do it the Old Fashioned Way we used about 20 years ago: Print to PS and hack the PS with vi. Each n-up page is probably nested within a scaled region. IIRC the red Adobe Postscript book was important to have handy. Would guess some of the smart context-sensitive text editors know Postscript and can block select nested sections. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 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. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 printed two A4 n-up on an A3; I want the two A4 separated again. 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 think you can set the scaling and page orientation in ghostscript so that the current single page requires multiple sheets to print. Also tell ghostscript that you only want the Nth page, or use other PS utilities to snatch the desired pages. Or you could do the same sort of thing using a GUI PDF viewer to print to file. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 such options in ghostscript. What are them? Or you could do the same sort of thing using a GUI PDF viewer to print to file. Using KDE, I tried its internal viewer and kpdf. Then xpdf, kpdftools and others, but none of them, AFAICT, could zoom. I tried acroread7: it seems to have the knobs to do what I want, but they do not seem to work... Which viewer do you suggest? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 in the past, but I wasn't too happy with the result: as you said, I lost a lot in term of resolution. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 ~/AcrobatFonts directory, which is neccessary for Acrobat Viewer to normally save its configuration data. ...help? Or maybe env EXPR_COMPAT=yes /usr/local/bin/ AcrobatViewer...? Alternatively, if you convert the PDF file to PostScript, (GNU) enscript ought to have an N-up filter which can deal with A3 - A4 conversions and so forth: /usr/ports/print/enscript-a4 AFAIK enscript starts from text, not from a PostScript page... Besides, if the N-up filter you say is options -U, it just put more pages into one, which is the opposite of what I want to do. Maybe I didn't get it right. How should I use it? This is a reasonable question. :-) At one point, Adobe's enscript utility not only dealt with ASCII text, it could do some manipulations of existing PostScript docs, and the psnup utility would not only do 1-2 or 1-4 layouts, it could extract pages back (ie, 2-1 and so forth). It also handled page size conversions, such as A3-A4. However, I recall doing a lot of this PostScript manipulation on a NeXT which had native Display PostScript imaging, and it might be the case that Adobe's PostScript manipulation tools were more capable on that platform then they would be elsewhere. Also note that what is in ports is the GNU reimplementation of Adobe's enscript, and it may or may not be as capable -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 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. Aloha I have printed a single page of instructions from a PDF by copying and pasting from the PDF, the specific page, to AbiWord then printing it out. You can try that. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Have you had a look at: Port: pdftk-1.12_1 Path: /usr/ports/print/pdftk Info: A simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: gcc-4.1.3_20070312 gettext-0.16.1 gmake-3.81_1 libiconv-1.9.2_2 R-deps: gcc-4.1.3_20070312 libiconv-1.9.2_2 WWW:http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ I have heard good things about this app. Hope that helps. A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 might work. Unfortunately, you don't have two A4 pages, just one A3. So you'll have to figure out the parameters to get it to read first the left and then the right half as individual pages. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Alternatively, if you convert the PDF file to PostScript, (GNU) enscript ought to have an N-up filter which can deal with A3 - A4 conversions and so forth: /usr/ports/print/enscript-a4 -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
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 PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... don bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Don Hinton don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu or hintonda at gmail.com Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University tel: 615.480.5667 or 615.870.9728 pgpf75owzRqld.pgp Description: PGP signature
