[plug] Re: ghostscript or similar tweak needed

[William Kenworthy]

I usually convert to PS, manipulate them as a PS file then join with
"psjoin" and lastly convert to pdf.

google "psjoin"

BillK


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 13:12 +0900, gavin chester wrote:
> 2008/11/4 Mike Holland <michael.holland at gmail.com>:
> > Gavin Chester wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm not rtfm-ing much lately, sorry ;-) Answering my own post, I will
> >> try the option of something like 'kong-pdf' to extract all odd pages
> >
> > Can you extract each page to a file? pdf or pbm .
> 
> Yes, I can use pdftk or gs to 'explode' the single file into multiple
> pages. kong-pdf offered the shortcut that I can extract ONLY the odd
> or even pages into a directory as files. I know I can then use same
> tools or pdf90 to rotate the pages, say if I manually put them in a
> separate folder. I might even stretch my knowledge to script that
> rotation for all files in the directory ;-).
> 
> But, once there with the pages rotated, I'm blowed if I know a
> scripted way to stitch it back together again in the right order w/o
> having to name each file in the order they need to be stitched. That
> is, if I had files for each non-rotated page as 1.pdf, 3.pdf, 5.pdf
> and the rotated pages were 2.pdf, 4pdf, 6pdf I would write it out as
> "gs combine 1.pdf, 2pdf, ... 109.pdf, 110.pdf". Quite tedious for 100+
> pages. How might I script that operation so I interleave odd and even
> pages in sequence after the rotation of half of them?
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