Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:20:51PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) will

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:06:23PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:36:48PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 26 Jan 2009 at 00:16:23 PST Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Thanks, Gents, But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based tool, it

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:06:23 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: So what kind of moron is going to photograph pages --or maybe just get-screenshot-of-this-page and upload it? The PDF serves as a container for pictural images in this context. Another idea would be to have

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:51:14 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Still, before I get back to the Last few pages of my thesis, maybe I'll try feeding parts of my most vanilla image-PDF file to an opensource OCR program. I'm pretty sure there are a couple in

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:39:06 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Those PDFs are usually scanned, and the scanner software (usually on Windows) assembles all screenshots into a PDF of images. Handy for printing, but not for OCR postprocessing. That's what you find on the Net. On the

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Andrew Robinson
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 26 January 2009 09:17:05 Andrew Robinson wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:20:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 497d0ff3.6090...@telenix.org Content

can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? thanks in advance, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? thanks in advance, gary To split the

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Folks, Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? as every other file. use split. or you meant splitting to separate pdf by some pages? convert to ps (pdf2ps) then use

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because, well, they aren't PDF files anymore. ;-) For this, you'd prefer to split the PDF file after N pages. You may want to investigate print/pdftk: From /usr/ports/print/pdftk/pkg-descr: If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder,

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) does both splits and merges of pdf files, but it doesn't seem

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:37:08AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: because, well, they aren't PDF files anymore. ;-) For this, you'd prefer to split the PDF file after N pages. You may want to investigate print/pdftk: From /usr/ports/print/pdftk/pkg-descr: If PDF is electronic paper,

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:51:56 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ )

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam (