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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:58:15 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: handling pdfs?
Message-ID:  <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org>
References:  <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org>

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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'' :)




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