Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling pdfs? Message-ID: <4752F4CA.5050805@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <474CD21D.5010002@chuckr.org> <20071128175815.GA18822@kobe.laptop> <20071128130518.b9c545ac.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20071128205045.66e28630@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. > I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, always seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read them. So, xpdf wouldn't be my first choice. I use kpdf to view pdfs for that particular reason, and onthe same document, kpdf does a distinctly better job, If kpdf uses xpdf's engine, then it must find some way to pick better fonts for itself, it actually does look better.
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