From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "J.S.Milne" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Splitting 2 pages/page landscape postscript file into two single page portrait pages Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:28:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1192105723.320889.224570@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> References: <1192048230.677232.139360@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192170524 23996 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 06:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:28:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 08:28:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IgE0c-0002GQ-0L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:28:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgE0V-00037t-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:28:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript, comp.text.tex, comp.graphics.algorithms, comp.text.pdf, gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.40.243.150 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192105723 27731 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2007 12:28:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:28:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1192048230.677232.139360@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.40.243.150; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.lang.postscript:85884 comp.text.tex:359803 comp.graphics.algorithms:169748 comp.text.pdf:85367 gnu.emacs.help:152831 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:26:13 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48352 Archived-At: 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