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Shell script to split PDF using Ghostscript. [originally from http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/pdfsplit/pdfsplit]
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| #!/bin/sh | |
| # | |
| # pdfsplit [input.pdf] [first_page] [last_page] [output.pdf] | |
| # | |
| # Example: pdfsplit big_file.pdf 10 20 pages_ten_to_twenty.pdf | |
| # | |
| # written by: Westley Weimer, Wed Mar 19 17:58:09 EDT 2008 | |
| # | |
| # The trick: ghostscript (gs) will do PDF splitting for you, it's just not | |
| # obvious and the required defines are not listed in the manual page. | |
| if [ $# -lt 4 ] | |
| then | |
| echo "Usage: pdfsplit input.pdf first_page last_page output.pdf" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="$4" -dFirstPage=$2 -dLastPage=$3 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite "$1" |
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