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Hi,
I've just have received my Iliad and really like it. Unfortunately some of my PDFs are multipaged (2 portait formatted pages on one landscape page), like the Linux pnup tool is generating. I have looked around but have not found any working tool to reformat these files to be readable properly on the Iliad. So I did some testing on my Linux PC and wrote a little shell script to unpnup such PDFs. It works perfect with my A4 Landscape PDFs but should be easily adapted to unpnup even multicolumn pages. Find my bash script attached. Hope you find it useful Regards Fodiator Last edited by fodiator; 09-30-2007 at 02:50 PM. |
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Thanks, is it posible to use it in windows, and if yes how do i run the script?
Thanks and sorry for my ignorance. Jose |
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Sorry,
unfortunately I don't think there is way to run it under windows (ecxept you run Linux in a vmware box). But it would be possible to run it via a php script as a service on a Linux webserver. Perhaps a friendly soul will do it. ![]() regards Fodiator |
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pdflrf will do that
You can use pdflrf by cacapee in windows, dos, and Ubuntu Linux to split and refine pdf, djvu or zipped png pages. The output in zipped png can be easily converted to any other format, e.g. pdf.
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Will this work on PDFs that are text-based as well as image based? And will it increase the size of PDFs?
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#programs required: #pdftk, pdftops, poster, epstopdf |
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split pages in pdf
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I use pdflrf for converting my input files to beefed up images, in order to use them instead of pdfs in my 7" Archos 704 wifi. The main reason is very slow rendering of pdfs by Archos. Another opition to split the pages in image only mode is to use unpaper. Linux version is available from the author's site. Command line version for DOS/Windows is available in a package pdfread (search in the directory where you install pdfread). |
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If you don't have linux you can always split files with pdftk. Just cut the double sided into two files, odd.pdf and even.pdf then run:
pdftk even.pdf burst output %04d_A.pdf pdftk odd.pdf burst output %04d_B.pdf pdftk *_?.pdf cat output combined.pdf It'll take your odd and even pages and put them in the right order. |
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poster could be downloaded from ftp://ftp.ics.ele.tue.nl/pub/users/j.../poster.tar.gz epstopdf should be part of the LaTex packages (unfortunately i can't give you any details because am not a Mac user) Hope it helps, regards Fodiator |
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pdftk odd.pdf burst output %04d_A.pdf pdftk even.pdf burst output %04d_B.pdf pdftk *_?.pdf cat output combined.pdf For those who want to understand what this set of arcane commands means, you're telling pdftk to take the two pdf documents and split them into one pdf file per page. They get names like 0001_A.pdf, 0002_A.pdf, etc from the "odd" document, then 0001_B.pdf, 0002_B.pdf, etc. for the "even" document. If you list those alphabetically, the A's will come before the B's of the same number, so the "cat output" command puts them all back together in the right order. (You'll want to delete all the extra PDF documents afterwards, probably.) As far as how to split the PDF document into A and B parts, I used Acrobat's Crop command. First I cropped to just keep the left half, and saved that as "odd.pdf", then I did the same but only kept the right half, as "even.pdf". |
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Warning: Fink is a bit Unixy, if you aren't familiar with the Terminal it might be a little difficult. |
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Awesome! Thanks!
![]() It'd be great if it was able to remove the empty margins --there seems to be no option for that in pdftk or poster, other than manually specifying the margins. |
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