Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: > Message: 2 > > > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 > > From: Chuck Robey > > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Message-ID: <497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org>

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Andrew Robinson
Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 > From: Chuck Robey > Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Message-ID: <497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:39:06 +0100, cpghost wrote: > Those PDFs are usually scanned, > and the scanner software (usually on Windows) assembles all screenshots > into a PDF of images. Handy for printing, but not for OCR postprocessing. > That's what you find on the Net. On the Web. :-) > Th

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:51:14 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Still, > before I get back to the Last few pages of my thesis, maybe I'll > try feeding parts of my most vanilla image-PDF file to an > opensource OCR program. I'm pretty sure there are a couple in > ports. IIRC, tho

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:06:23 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > So what kind of moron is going to photograph pages --or maybe just > get-screenshot-of-this-page" and upload it? The PDF serves as a container for pictural images in this context. Another idea would be to have separate image fil

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: > >On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >>Thanks, Gents, > >> > >>But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based > >>tool, it was

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:06:23PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Thanks, Gents, > > > > > > But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based > > > tool,

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Thanks, Gents, > > > > But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based > > tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to > >

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) could

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Roland Smith
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) wi

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Thanks, Gents, > > But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based > tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to > speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical proble

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:20:51PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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://w

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:37:08AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > because, well, they aren't PDF files anymore. ;-) > > For this, you'd prefer to split the PDF file after > > N pages. You may want to investigate print/pdftk: > > > >> From /usr/ports/print/pdftk/pkg-descr: > > > > If PDF is elec

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because, well, they aren't PDF files anymore. ;-) For this, you'd prefer to split the PDF file after N pages. You may want to investigate print/pdftk: From /usr/ports/print/pdftk/pkg-descr: If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-dec

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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? as every other file. use split. or you meant splitting to separate pdf by some pages? convert to ps (pdf2ps) then use mpa

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
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? > > thanks in advance, > > gary To split