Gary Jennejohn wrote:
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.
I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the
fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose, always
seems to run characters together, so it gets hard to read them. So,
xpdf wouldn't be my first choice. I use kpdf to view pdfs for that
particular reason, and onthe same document, kpdf does a distinctly
better job, If kpdf uses xpdf's engine, then it must find some way to
pick better fonts for itself, it actually does look better.
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