handling pdfs?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500
Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:

> In response to Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>:
> 
> > On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
> > > I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs.  I also
> > > have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at
> > > home-reading  documents in paper.  What I'd kind of like to do would
> > > be able to perform cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10
> > > pages there, until I put together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back
> > > and read it. What I can't do is print just a few pages out of several
> > > 800-plus page specs, and perform paper cut'n'pasting.
> > 
> > If you find a way to 'save' only parts of a PDF document, i.e. pages
> > 5-10, 17 and 25 in a separate file, then the ``pdfjam'' port includes
> > a utility called ``pdfjoin'' :)
> 
> You could print the desired pages to .ps files, use ps2pdf to convert
> them and then pdfjam to combine them.
> 
> It's enough of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not.
> 

xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn