split pdf file into two

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 2/16/12, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu> wrote:

> From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra at iastate.edu>
> Subject: Re: split pdf file into two
> To: tkevans at tkevans.com, "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:02 PM
> So i have a 12 page pdf. I want to
> split it into pages 1-7 say and
> 8-12. 
> 
> What do I do? I guess pdfseparate does not help.
> 
> Ranjan
> 
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:19 -0500 Tim Evans <tkevans at tkevans.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to do this on F16? Sorry for
> the terseness of the
> > > question.
> > 
> > man split  (might also need 'man wc' to calculate
> where half is).
> > 
> > -- 

Ranjan, 


You may use ghostscript(gs) command and select say pages 1 - 8 
A script by Roland Smith may help:

http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/software/pdfselect

Download it, make it executable 
$ chmod +x pdfselect 
then run
$ ./pdfselect 1 8 original.pdf
and then
$ ./pdfselect 9 16 original.pdf

two new pdfs should be created.  Try it out and hopefully it works.

Regards,


Antonio