Script for converting a pdf to book format: an update
With reference to [1], the script posted by dokan fails via a Bash syntax error because my version of pdftk 1.41 has multiple lines matching to "Num", which are stored in the TOTAL variable. If we modify the first non-ignored line of the script from
to
the script works as expected.
However, its output isn't perfect. In inputting an eighteen page pdf and printing the output, I see that the middle two pages of the document (printed last) are not on the front-and-back of the last sheet, but are instead side-by-side on the same side of the sheet. Therefore, upon converting it to booklet form, instead of having an extra blank "sheet" (half-sheet) at the end of the document, I have two empty pages in the middle of it.
If this (minor but important) issue were fixed, this would be equivalent to printing "Booklet mode" from Acrobat Reader.
Hi all
Is there any program which can convert PDF to word processor file ? If the PDF has smart quotes, bullet icons, copyright and trademark symbols, etc. what happens to them intext format? So ideally would like to conver into rtf or doc.
Thanks
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I have a number of post script files (*.ps) which I need to convert into Pdf.
I am using the ps2pdf command for this, but the trouble is that this commands takes only one input at a time. So the command
ps2pdf *.ps doesnt work.
how can I make a script which will take each .ps file from... (3 Replies)
my app creates pdf and prints them on windows. I want to run the same app on AIX 5.2. I convert PDF to PS using acroread command. But some options of acroread like landscape etc do not work. I came to know from google that there is bug with acroread for AIX with landscape option.
Can you suggest... (3 Replies)
Hi everybody! This is my first post. I am a student and I'm familiarizing myself with linux.
I have lots of directories each containing file called "zadaci.latex". I want to convert them to pdf's and rename them to <directory_name>.pdf.
I read alot on this forum and came up with this script:... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
is it possible to convert pdf files to Word with some free :p software or with some trick??? Now I'm working with LATEX and I can get pdf format but I would like to get .rtf or .doc files too:rolleyes:.
Lately I found something like that, but it wasn't free.
Thanks for any... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a requirement of converting an html form into pdf using perl.
The html form contains images, tables and css implementation. I tried using various perl modules but failed to achive the target.
I succeeded in generating a pdf from the html file using... (2 Replies)
Hello, excuse my English... I'm trying to do a nautilus-script to transform a normal A4 pdf to another pdf with book format, ready to be printed (double sided). I mean, the script put pages in order and also put 2 pages per horizontal A4 page (p.e.: a pdf with 8 pages would look like: 8-1, 2-7,... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am having couple of files which i used to copy from windows to Linux, so now in case of text files (CTRL^M) appears at end of line. I know i can convert this windows format file to unix format file by running dos2unix.
My requirement here is that i want to do it automatically using a... (5 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I am in urgent need for awk/sed/sh script for converting a specific data format (.txt) to .xls.
The input is as follows:
>gi|1234|ref|
Query = 1 - 65, Target = 1677 - 1733
Score = 8.38, E = 0.6529, P = 0.0001513, GC = 46
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fsdfdsfdfdfdfdfdf... (6 Replies)
Does anybody have idea of Converting secured pdf files to pdf using acroread ?
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context
CONTEXT(1) ConTeXt CONTEXT(1)NAME
context - front end to the new ConTeXt typesetting system
SYNOPSIS
context [ OPTION ... ] FILE [ ... ]
DESCRIPTION
context, a texlua(1) script, is the command-line front end to the new version of the ConTeXt typesetting system, an extensive macro package
built on the tex(1) family of typesetting programs. context provides several facilties:
o Process a ConTeXt source file, performing as many runs as necessary of luatex(1). Options control the output format, the pages to
process, paper size, and so forth.
o Create new ConTeXt formats, useful during installation.
o Post-process existing PDF files, including merging multiple files, and extracting and rearranging pages within a file, similar to
the facilities provided for PostScript files by psnup(1) or for PDF files by pdftk(1).
OPTIONS
All switches should always be specified in full. With no options, context assumes that the file on the command line is a ConTeXt source
file, i.e. a TeX file in the ConTeXt dialect, and produces a PDF file using the source file.
--run process (one or more) files (default action)
--make create context formats
--ctx=name
use ctx file (process management specification)
--interface
use specified user interface (default: en)
--autopdf
close pdf file in viewer and start pdf viewer afterwards
--purge(all)
purge files either or not after a run (--pattern=...)
--usemodule=list
load the given module or style, normally part o fthe distribution
--environment=list
load the given environment file first (document styles)
--mode=list
enable given the modes (conditional processing in styles)
--path=list
also consult the given paths when files are looked for
--arguments=list
set variables that can be consulted during a run (key/value pairs)
--randomseed=number
set the randomseed
--result=name
rename the resulting output to the given name
--trackers=list
set tracker variables (show list with --showtrackers)
--directives=list
set directive variables (show list with --showdirectives)
--silent=list
disable logcatgories (show list with --showlogcategories)
--noconsole
disable logging to the console (logfile only)
--purgeresult
purge result file before run
--forcexml
force xml stub (optional flag: --mkii)
--forcecld
force cld (context lua document) stub
--arrange
run extra imposition pass, given that the style sets up imposition
--noarrange
ignore imposition specifications in the style
--once only run once (no multipass data file is produced)
--batchmode
run without stopping and don't show messages on the console
--nonstopmode
run without stopping
--generate
generate file database etc. (as mtxrun does)
--paranoid
don't descend to .. and ../..
--version
report installed context version
--expert
show expert options
INITIALIZATION
The context command is just a stub that runs the larger mtxrun script, which is a scripting framework written for texlua(1) that supports
loading of extra modules, of which context is one. The implementation actually resides in a file named mtx-context.lua deep within the TDS
structure.
If context complains about Unknown script 'context', this can usually be fixed by executing mtxrun --generate on the command line: this
command regenerates the database that mtxrun uses to find its extra modules.
SEE ALSO tex(1), luatex(1), texlua(1), psnup(1), pdftk(1).
ConTeXt wiki <http://www.contextgarden.net>.
ConTeXt mailing list home <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>.
BUGS
This manpage is horribly incomplete.
AUTHOR
This partial manpage was written by Taco Hoekwater <taco@metatex.org>. It is based on the --help output of context.
context 0.52 June 2011 CONTEXT(1)