Hello Jeremy and all pkgsrc-users, On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:26:08AM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > p.s. I just need to cut out some PDF pages. texexec loses the page size > and changes formatting but pdftk works good last time I used it. gv > converting PDF and saving selected pages to postscript looks terrible > (loses font details?). If anyone knows of an alternative, please let me > know. I don't know wip/pdftk, but this problem was interesting so I tryed to write a solution. BTW I'm not a Perl coder, I only like to code in C and Perl, so this script is probably horrible. For this Perl script you need only wip/p5-PDF-Reuse. For example we want to take the 2nd chapter in ``The pkgsrc guide'': $ ./forjeremy.pl pkgsrc.pdf 16 18 > chapter2.pdf So the syntax is: $ ./forjeremy.pl <input.pdf> <first_page> <last_page> > <output.pdf> This is the script: [...] #!/usr/pkg/bin/perl # forjeremy.pl, a quick and dirty script to cut out some pages from a PDF # Leonardo Taccari, leonardo1990[at]gmail[dot]com use warnings; use strict; use PDF::Reuse; # Read the options from the shell via @ARGV my ($mypdf, $firstpage, $lastpage) = @ARGV; # Open our final PDF and put it to STDOUT prFile(); # Get pages from $firstpage to $lastpage in our $mypdf prDoc($mypdf, $firstpage, $lastpage); # Close our PDF prEnd(); [...] HTH and good luck Jeremy. :) Ciao, Leonardo -- Leonardo Taccari (leot) | http://leot.netsons.org
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