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foolosophy
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Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: Split double paged landscape PDF into single paged |
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I have some PDF's which were produced by scanning books. Therefore, the pages 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc. are in the same PDF page, and the PDF is landscape oriented.
How can I conver this into a PDF which has page 1 on page 1, page 2 on page 2, etc. ?
I tried several tools I found on the web surfing:
-PDFread (http://pdfread.sourceforge.net/) did not work for me.
-unpnup (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?p=9411&sid=30013002143386e25af92650dae5a20e) didn't either.
-printing with KDEprint using the poster filter was no good either (KDE complains that it cannot proccess postscript files, with many different filter combinations).
How can I do this? |
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frogb
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I did this before for 6 pages per portrait page. You might need to change some of the numbers. The problem with the way is that cropping a page doesn't remove the content from the file, so it results in larger file sizes than necessary.
Using pdftk and pdfcrop from tetex:
Crop the document twice from each side.
Split each document into individual pages.
Combine all the pages together.
| Code: | pdfcrop --mode absolute --clip --margins '000 000 420 000' file.pdf file-1.pdf
pdfcrop --mode absolute --clip --margins '420 000 000 000' file.pdf file-2.pdf
pdftk "file-1.pdf" burst output "file-%04d_1.pdf"
pdftk "file-2.pdf" burst output "file-%04d_2.pdf"
pdftk file-*_?.pdf cat output file-combined.pdf |
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