On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In response to Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also > > > have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at > > > home-reading documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would > > > be able to perform cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 > > > pages there, until I put together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back > > > and read it. What I can't do is print just a few pages out of several > > > 800-plus page specs, and perform paper cut'n'pasting. > > > > If you find a way to 'save' only parts of a PDF document, i.e. pages > > 5-10, 17 and 25 in a separate file, then the ``pdfjam'' port includes > > a utility called ``pdfjoin'' :) > > You could print the desired pages to .ps files, use ps2pdf to convert > them and then pdfjam to combine them. > > It's enough of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not. > xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. -- Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
