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Tigran Aivazian tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Dec 8 20:34:46 CET 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, John Culleton wrote:
> If you need to break up the file after typesetting for ease in transport I
> suggest converting to PostScript (pdf2ps) and then using psselect to pick off
> ranges of pages. Then you could convert the segments back to pdf format with
> ps2pdf. I use the PostScript utilities that come with Ghostscript and with
> Psutil all the time.

Or one can use pdfpages to do the same without the need to go through 
PostScript as intermediate stage. Although pdfpages is a LaTeX package the 
original document doesn't have to be written in LaTeX, i.e. it can be 
plain pdfTeX, of course.

Kind regards
Tigran



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