PDF freeware tools ?

[Bror Johansson]

I have two PDF-file related problems. Google didn't help me finding
solutions. Anyone know about freeware to:

1. Take a PDF-document that has a pagesize that is too large for most
printers and split it into a number of printable and slightly overlapping
pages that can be printed and physically glued together? ( I have got a
PDF-file with pagesize 22" x 28"; luckily just one page)

2. Take a directory containing a lot of PDF-files and then tell me the total
number of pages for the PDF-files? (In my case the number of files is more
than 150, so opening them one by one is not a very desired option)

TIA
/BJ

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

1. Take a PDF-document that has a pagesize that is too large for most
printers and split it into a number of printable and slightly overlapping
pages that can be printed and physically glued together? ( I have got a
PDF-file with pagesize 22" x 28"; luckily just one page)

Have not looked at all the options, but maybe the "the pdf toolkit"
(PDFTK) <http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/> can do that for you?
GUI for the PDFTK: <http://dpaehl.dp.funpic.de/portal/?GUI_for_PDFTK>

Don't know about your second question (count number of pages for all
PDFs in a dir)....

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[wald]

I have two PDF-file related problems. Google didn't help me
finding solutions. Anyone know about freeware to:

1. Take a PDF-document that has a pagesize that is too large for
most printers and split it into a number of printable and
slightly overlapping pages that can be printed and physically
glued together? ( I have got a PDF-file with pagesize 22" x 28";
luckily just one page)

Don't know about this one. Check out PDFTK as Bjorn suggested, it's
my usual "first suggestion" for questions about PDF manipulation.

2. Take a directory containing a lot of PDF-files and then tell
me the total number of pages for the PDF-files? (In my case the
number of files is more than 150, so opening them one by one is
not a very desired option)

You might be able to do something with Python. You'll have to write
a small script looping over the files, counting the pages in the PDF
documents.

This code snippet will definitely be of use:

http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2004-
June/003139.html

Hope it works out for you,
Wald