handling pdfs?

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Tue Nov 27 19:18:40 PST 2007


    0n Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:27:41PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: 

    >I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs.  I also have a 
    >rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading  
    >documents in paper.  What I'd kind of like to do would be able to perform 
    >cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 pages there, until I put 
    >together maybe 100-200 pages, and sit back and read it. What I can't do is 
    >print just a few pages out of several 800-plus page specs, and perform 
    >paper cut'n'pasting.
    >
    >Is there some sort of util that will allow me to do cut'n'pasting among 
    >different pdfs, or at the very least, only to print certain ranges out of 
    >pdf docs, so I could do paper-wise cut'n'paste?  An all-electronic solution 
    >would be best, but I'd take whatever offered.

/usr/ports/print/pdftk/

 -aW

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