From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nospam@dev.null (Alexey Pustyntsev) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Splitting 2 pages/page landscape postscript file into two single page portrait pages Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:01:56 +1100 Message-ID: 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 1192186494 9574 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 10:54:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:54:54 +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 12:54:42 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 1IgI9y-0001EH-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:54:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgI9s-0005Z1-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgI9d-0005W4-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgI9X-0005QR-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgI9X-0005QF-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.242.74.155] (helo=sycore.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgI9X-0000UO-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: by sycore.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id 03AAD31E82; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:42:35 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: from sycore.org (d3059.ys.dialup.sakhalin.ru [87.251.97.59]) by sycore.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B754531E8D for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:42:29 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: from alexey by sycore.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IgIHE-0003lm-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:01:56 +1100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.10 Emacs/22.1 In-Reply-To: <1192048230.677232.139360@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> (vasan's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:30:30 -0000") X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:48369 Archived-At: vasan999@hotmail.com writes: > 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 Hi I think a ghostsript mail list is more appropriate for this discussion. Anyway, you may wish to try pdftk. If you have ghostscript, first, convert ps to pdf with ps2pdf, then use pdftk. ,----[ pdftk - A handy tool for manipulating PDF ] | | If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic | staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, | and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing | everyday things with PDF documents. Use it to: | | * Merge PDF Documents | * Split PDF Pages into a New Document | * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required) | * Encrypt Output as Desired | * Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms | * Apply a Background Watermark | * Report PDF Metrics such as Metadata and Bookmarks | * Update PDF Metadata | * Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document | * Unpack PDF Attachments | * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages | * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams | * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible) `---- Check if this link is not dead http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ -- Rgds Alexey Today is Setting Orange, the 66th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173