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

["J.S.Milne" <ggl@jmilne.org>]

On Oct 10, 4:30 pm, 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

You could convert it to pdf and then use pdfpages to split the pages
in two and then collate using this file
http://www.jmilne.org/math/Books/two2one.tex
However, I don't know whether this preserves the embedded fonts etc.
(the file is intended for scanned pages).
J.S. Milne