can i split a pdf file?

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Folks,
> 
> 	Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ]
> 	chunks?  Or are there open source tools out there that i can
> 	build?  
 	
Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) will copy pages from a PDF:

gs -DNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=<N> -dLastPage=<M> \
-sOutputFile=<outfile.pdf> <infile.pdf> -c quit >/dev/null 2>&1

Where <N> and <M> are page numbers, and <outfile.pdf> and <infile.pdf>
are the output and original filename respectively.

Roland
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