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Does anyone know of a good way to tile large PDFs (i.e. split a single PDF into smaller pages)? Adobe reader only allows you to do this when printing and you ca
by wesleychen 3y ago
Does anyone know of a good way to tile large PDFs (i.e. split a single PDF into smaller pages)? Adobe reader only allows you to do this when printing and you can't save the tiled PDF as its own file.
- matsemann 3y agoCan you print to pdf, perhaps? But I've done it with Illustrator previously, at least.
- dspillett 3y agoSome time ago I had success with https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam for that purpose under Linux. It used to be included in the standard Debian repositories but that no longer seems to be the case which might mean it is an unmaintained project that has build issues. Worth trying though, if it builds on a modern system. It might also be worth trying if the PDF reader in a Chrome/Chromium can use its “pages per sheet” option when using a print-to-PDF driver (included by default with Windows these days IIRC, likely available as an option at least on other OSs). You may lose some fidelity on things like images this way, depending on the options selected in the print to PDF driver.
- benoliver999 3y agoon arch it comes with extra/texlive-binextra
- kwstas 3y agoI use pdftk on linux to do most of this type of stuff. For example if you want pages 1 -10 : ` pdftk {{input.pdf}} cat {{1-10}} output {{output.pdf}} ` If you want to do multiple files you may want to burst them and recombine. If you are doing it for file size purposes there may be better options though, as I dont think there is any way to split in 500kB chunks for example. There supposedely is a windows version [here](https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/). I haven't used it though.
- foul 3y agomutool poster -x 2 -y 2 input.pdf out%d.pdf