Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:45 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? Message-ID: <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500 Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote: > In response to Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>: > > > 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'' :) > > You could print the desired pages to .ps files, use ps2pdf to convert > them and then pdfjam to combine them. > > It's enough of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not. > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. -- Gary Jennejohn
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