On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:11:25PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > > Thanks for the very swift answer Adam. I'm still confused. I should have > been more specific and said that the PDF files contain images and text. > I don't want to manipulate them, just print them as a patchwork. > Are you trying to print a pdf whose page size is bigger than A4? If not, acroread will print the file either to the printer or ps file. If you need to 'tile' the output, check out the package poster. It has helped me make big posters by pasting A4 sized printouts with neat cropmarks. Yes, it is apt-gettable. Here is the info: $ apt-cache show poster Package: poster Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 84 Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 20020830-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libpaper1 Filename: pool/main/p/poster/poster_20020830-2_i386.deb Size: 20712 MD5sum: 11e2c381146b6225f83515aaaba6a2b5 Description: Create large posters out of PostScript pages Poster takes a one-page PostScript file and scales it to a specified size. It can tile the resulting image into multiple smaller pages that can be pasted together to form the big poster. Poster prefers EPS as its input although freer forms of PostScript are also understood. > So I don't think pdftotext or pdftohtml will help. > Yes. > I couldn't find anything in the manpages of pdftops or convert about > splitting pages into multiple parts. Did I miss something? Or are you > suggesting converting it to an image and using image manipulation tools > to select and print each piece individually? (I could do that but I was > hoping there is some way to do it automatically) > Again, I am curious: do you need to print multiple pages of pdf on to a single sheet of A4? If so, psutils will help you. If you have it installed, check out psnup, psselect and psbook. HTH, Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 Humor in the Court: Q. And who is this person you are speaking of? A. My ex-widow said it.
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