Re: Splitting 2 pages/page landscape postscript file into two single page portrait pages

[Hector C <hhcalderon@yahoo.com>]

Do you have access to Adobe Acrobat? (If not, download the trial
version for 30 days...)

1) Open your document with pdf distiller. It will create a pdf out of
the ps file.
2) Crop the pages so that you get even pages showing.
3) Print that file TO THE PDF PRINTER (sorry the caps but I want to
make the point)
4) Open the generated pdf and export all pages.
5) Rename (use a dos batch file) those pages to something that shows
their being even.
6) Repeat for odd pages.
7) Create pdf from the exported pages.
8) Send me a postcard.

++Hector C.

PS. I know it works because I use this method (minus the even/odd) to
get rid of footnotes/magin notes and I still get a searchable pdf.

On Oct 11, 5:41 am, Helge Blischke <h.blisc...@srz.de> wrote:
> vasan...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hi, I am a newbie.
>
> > I have a book.ps file which has all the pages, having two facing pages
> > per portrait page like this:
>
> > +---------------+--------------+
> > |                 |               |
> > |                 |               |
> > +---------------+--------------+
>
> > I want to split the two pages. I dont want to scan the pages and then
> > make bulky images out of compact pdf file. The file was generated from
> > a dvi and latex that are no longer available. The
> > author has died. The ps was made to save the number of printed
> > pages in an era before pdf.
>
> > So there are two problems:
> > (1) split the ps into single pages
> > (2) split each page in the center to to two successive pages.
> > (3) then combine all the ps
> > (4) I would like the ps to be converted to pdf so that it is
> > searcheable, if possible.
>
> > Steps 1-2 are the most important.
>
> > Vasantha
>
> Could you please post (an URL to) a sample of that file
> (the first 2 or 3 pages would be sufficient). If steps 1 and
> 2 can be done and, if yes, which what effort, can only be estimated
> after looking into the file.
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blisc...@acm.org