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How to convert a pdf to 4-up in landscape mode (ideally using ghostscript)?
I have pdf slides in landscape mode and would like to create a new pdf file containing the slides 4-up (in landscape mode again) like this:
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How to make ghostscript not wipe PDF metadata
Ghostscript wipes the PDF metadata like author, title, subject etc. How can I tell ghostscript not to touch the metadata? I invoke it as follows:
gs \
-dBATCH \
-dNOPAUSE ...
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Rescale a PDF file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change height and width of each page of a pdf
Is it possible to rescale a PDF file (retaining perspective) to be within a maximum width / height?
Rendering to an ...
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Implementing a String -> PDF Stamp tool
I wrote a little shell function which creates a fixed-size PDF file (A4) from a character string using gs:
make_stamp() {
file=$1
string=$2
tmp=${file}-small.pdf
gs -o "$tmp" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ...
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2answers
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How to create a single page PDF file out of multiple EPS files with GhostScript
I'm trying to merge eps files into a pdf file using GS, however, I cannot get it to put multiple eps files without page breaks in between even if original files are small. The command I'm using is:
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convert pdf to image [jpeg|png]
I need to convert pdf files into image files (like: png (prefer), jpeg).
I used convert (from the ImageMagick package) but it takes more than 4 seconds for a 2 page pdf file with only tables ...
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votes
1answer
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insert a blank page into a PDF using ghostscript or pdftk
I have a PDF file that needs a blank page inserted into it every so often. The pattern is unpredictable, so I need a command that will allow me to fit one in wherever necessary.
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1answer
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Use convert or ghostscript to grab the odd-numbered pages of a PDF
I have a PDF that consists of several hundred pages of bilingual text. Since I need to use OCR on each language separately, I want to grab the even and odd pages and make two separate PDFs, using ...
