Thanks Marc. I'm not currently LaTeX literate, but this sounds like something I should look into in future...!
Maurice On 15 Feb 2008, at 07:29, Marc H. Scholl wrote: > ... Acrobat Professional would also do the job, but as a commecial > solution, this might not be available to you either. > > The pdfpages LaTeX package is a free solution (if you have a LaTeX > installation somewhere), pdfnup which wraps around LaTeX and > pdfpages provides a user-friendly commandline tool to do the job > (allows for scaling, n-up printing, ...) > > Best > --Marc > On 15.02.2008 at 05:16h, mf wrote (with possible deletions): > >> Thanks...! >> >> I already have a paper copy of the document, which is a 33 page >> statute. I need it on the computer to be able to search >> electronically >> and to copy passages into other documents. >> >> The formatting is highly complex, with many layers of nested indents. >> Pasting into a text file would undo the formatting - too laborious >> to >> recreate. Don't have Photoshop. >> >> I have tried several times to print the pdf to pdf, in the hope of >> being able to scale it up. It always comes out same size as the >> original. I haven't found a scaling-up option in the "Print" > "Save >> as PDF" function. If you can point me to it, I'd be grateful.... >> >> >> >> On 15 Feb 2008, at 03:12, The Org Dork wrote: >> >>> On 2/14/08 6:44 PM, "mf" wrote: >>> >>>> I have one constantly used pdf with extremely small type which I >>>> need >>>> to have at about 200% magnification to read properly. But for all >>>> other pdfs, this is vastly too much and I use 130% magnification as >>>> the default Skim setting. >>>> >>>> I try and keep the small print file open as much as possible, to >>>> avoid >>>> having to constantly reopen it and reset the magnification. But I >>>> keep closing it without thinking and then have to fiddle about >>>> changing the magnification again when I reopen it. >>>> >>>> Can anyone think of a better way of handling this? >>> >>> 1. Print it. If you need it "constantly", then pin it to your wall. >>> 2. Use Skim to select the document's text and save that as a text >>> file, at >>> any type size you wish. >>> 3. OCR the document and save it with a more readable font size. >>> 4. Use PhotoShop to enlarge the document, print again as PDF or as >>> an image. >>> 5. Print the document to PDF using a scaling factor. Use the new >>> one. >>> 6. etc. >>> >>> >>> Trying to "jimmy" some software settings seems really overboard >>> here. If the >>> type's too small, and you use the document frequently (or, >>> "constantly", as >>> you say) then change the document -- not Skim settings. >>> >>> -- >>> G. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >>> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Skim-app-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > -- > | Prof. Dr. Marc H. Scholl > | > | Universitaet Konstanz > | FB Informatik & Informationswissenschaft > | D-78457 Konstanz, Germany > | Tel: +49 (0)7531/88-4432, Fax: +49 (0)7531/88-3577 > | http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~scholl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/_______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
