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07-24-2013

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Gs to split a pdf into multiple pages

Hello,

Some googling and checking the man pages told me it should be possible to split a pdf (or ps) file into individual pages :

Code:

man gs

You  might  want  to  print each page separately.  To do this, send the
       output to a series of files "foo1.xyz, foo2.xyz, ..." using the "-sOut-
       putFile=" switch with "%d" in a filename template:

            -sOutputFile=foo%d.xyz

So I tried splitting a file containing two pages :

Code:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=un_nostop%d.pdf un_nostop.pdf

but only one file (un_nostop1.pdf) containing the two pages is created ...

I tried with other pdf files, and the result is always the same.

What's the problem ? It must be right there, but I can't see it ...

Thanks,
Jos

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pdfseparate(1)						      General Commands Manual						    pdfseparate(1)

NAME

       pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor

SYNOPSIS

       pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern

DESCRIPTION

       pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).

       pdfseparate  reads  the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern, PDF-page-
       pattern should contain %d

       The PDF-file should not be encrypted.

OPTIONS

       -f number
	      Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.

       -l number
	      Specifies the last page to extract. if -p is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -h     Print usage information.	(-help and --help are equivalent.)

EXAMPLE

       pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf

       extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces

       sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf

AUTHOR

       The pdfseparate software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC  and  copyright  2005-2011  The  Poppler  Developers  -
       http://poppler.freedesktop.org

SEE ALSO

       pdfunite(1),

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