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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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NAME

       pdfclean - pretty print, decompress and garbage collect PDF files

SYNOPSIS

       pdfclean [options] input.pdf [output.pdf] [pages]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfclean  pretty prints and rewrites the contents of a PDF file.  If no output file is specified, the new file will be written to "out.pdf"
       in the current directory.

OPTIONS

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	      Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.

       -g     Garbage collect objects that have no references from other objects.  Give the option twice to renumber all objects and  compact  the
	      cross reference table.  Give it three times to merge and reuse duplicate objects.

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