On Mon, 11 May 2015 14:44:49 +0200 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> wrote:
> > With Slackware plus my own downloads I have > > pdftotext, pdftk, the Gvim editor, Gimp, > > Inkscape the huge Texlive suite and many > > others. I think I would attack the OP's quest > > with bursting the document to individual > > pages using pdftk, sorting them in reverse > > order, and write a script to rotate them 180 > > and so on. > > > > Bursting seems overkill, I'd start with > jPdfTweak (it has a GUI at least). > IMO the gui, like home cooking, is much overrated. but I will look up PDFTweak. If you burst a file using pdftk the individual pages don't lose any quality. For my current client I burst his pdf file, imported each page into Gimp at 300 dpi, trimmed the image to eliminate the headers and footers, converted the blue text to grayscale, used the curve function to make the text even darker and saved the result as a pdf again. Then I imported each such page into a Context TeX file which built the new running heads. The resulting quality was OK. It takes longer to describe it than to do each page. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at http://www.booklocker.com/!
