[OS X TeX] Splitting a .tex into multiple PDF files

Adrian Heathcote adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au
Thu Apr 18 17:52:54 CEST 2002



Hermant

You specify page ranges as

pages=n-m

where n and m are your page numbers. The manual for the package gives 
you the syntax---which is slightly counterintuitive, since it was 
designed for a slightly different purpose.

A.H.

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 01:39 AM, Hemant Bhargava wrote:

> Thanks, Adrian.
>
> I see that pdfpages allows me to include pdf pages from other files. 
> So, you're suggesting I could first compile my .tex file and generate a 
> single output pdf file, then run a series of commands like
>
> \includepdf[firstpage=a,lastpage=c]{file.pdf}
>
> to generate pdf files containing only the selected pages.
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> Another problem: I am able to run \includepdf without options. But when 
> I include the first/last page options, I get the following error 
> message:
>
> ! Package keyval Error: firstpage undefined.
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> - Hemant
>
> On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
>
>> Sure
>>
>> You can use pdfpages to do this.
>>
>> Adrian Heathcote
>>
>>
>> On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 12:42 AM, Hemant Bhargava wrote:
>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> Is there an easy, systematic, way to compile a .tex file (with 
>>> pdftex) and split the result into multiple PDF files?
>>>
>>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> - Hemant
>>>
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