Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:12:54 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: handling pdfs? Message-ID: <4752F5A6.9040909@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <200711291735.lATHZGqb039519@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <200711291735.lATHZGqb039519@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: >>> I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also >>> have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at >>> home-reading documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would >>> be able to perform cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 >>> pages there, until I put together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back >>> and read it. What I can't do is print just a few pages out of several >>> 800-plus page specs, and perform paper cut'n'pasting. >> If you find a way to 'save' only parts of a PDF document, i.e. pages >> 5-10, 17 and 25 in a separate file, then the ``pdfjam'' port includes >> a utility called ``pdfjoin'' :) > > /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps # ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15/+CONTENTS:bin/pdf2ps > then gs allows printing of page numbers > then print PS or > /usr/local/bin/ps2pdf # /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu > Seeing as I start out with pdfs here, yo probably meant pdf2ps, not ps2pdf, right? I will take another look at this, but in the past, when I have tried to use pdf2ps, it often would yield me pstscripts that couldn't be pages, for some reason. Maybe that's an old, fixed bug?
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