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Date:      Tue, 1 Nov 2016 07:55:00 -0700
From:      Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>,  "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: splitting A1 size PDF into 4 pages A4
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In-Reply-To: <20161101143150.GA4952@c720-r292778-amd64>
References:  <20161101143150.GA4952@c720-r292778-amd64>

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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got a file, one page A1 size PDF, and want to split this for
> printing (and glueing together) into 4 pages of A4 size PDF; do we have
> something in our ports for this, best a command line tool?
>
> Thanks
>
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One way is to use print/pdftk

# pdftk testa4.pdf cat 1 output a4-1.pdf
# pdftk testa4.pdf cat 2 output a4-2.pdf
# pdftk testa4.pdf cat 3 output a4-3.pdf
# pdftk testa4.pdf cat 4 output a4-4.pdf

Might be a way to do all pages at once,



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