Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
- Subject: Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
- From: Ray Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:42:35 -0500
Steve Hussey said...
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I have a number of PDFs which have multiple pages (many thousands). I want
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to be able to write a script that will split each PDF into 1000s of
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individual PDF files, where each PDF file is one unique page of the
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original, in the order that they were in the original file.
In my experience with v5 (horrible scripting), you can delete pages, but the
result is a single-page PDF file that is actually larger than the original
multi-page PDF.
GUI scripting in X may offer some new possibilities.
If you have access to the original PostScript files (doubtful) a better
route would be to split up the files there before processing in Distiller.
If not, you could possible use Acrobat scripting to save these files as
individual EPS pages, and then run them through Distiller again to create
the single-page PDFs.
Ray Robertson
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