On 25/01/13 20:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 01/25/2013 11:33:45 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 25/01/13 18:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:43:06 -0700, Joseph wrote: >> > >> >> I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to >> >> print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not >> >> print. Some documents prints OK but this one will not print it. >> >> >> >> Are there better programs in Linux for printing pdf files? >> > >> > Okular has always worked well for me. >> > >> > >> >> there is also pdf2pdf - I cant find which package its in, but its saved >> a few files for me (cleans/scrubs the pdf code as part of a pipeline) > > Thanks for the hint. To find a package > > http://www.portagefilelist.de/ is your friend. > > It shows that pdf2pdf is part of media-gfx/swftools-0.9.1 which is not > in the tree anymore. Furthermore it needs media-libs/pdflib which have > been abandoned, as well. But there is a newer version of > PDFlib Lite (7.0.5p3). Adapting the old ebuild for 7.0.4_p5 does work. > Then media-gfx/swftools-0.9.1 does build and it generates pdf2pdf. > > Helmut. >
Pity, it was quite useful. I did stumble across a script that did a similar task using ghotstscript: http://antihe.ro/scripts/pdf2pdf.sh.txt BillK
