[NTLUG:Discuss] Split a PDF File in Linux

brian at pongonova.net brian at pongonova.net
Wed Apr 23 18:50:46 CDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:21:52PM -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I have a PDF file of a schematic from a win 98 program. It generates all
> pages.
> 
> I need to send 4 of 17 pages to someone assisting me. 

I've always been fond of the PS processing utilities:

pdf2ps somefile.pdf | psselect -p4,8,9,10 | ps2pdf > somepages.pdf

Although I might just have to check out pdftk one day...sometimes old
school is best, though.  

There are some very cool things that can be done with these utilities.

  --Brian



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