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Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page?

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In article <5265d195-5351-49b9-8a08-
9317546902ba@o21g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, dmathog@gmail.com says...

> It doesn't seem like this works when written to the PDF or PS device
> even if the former bug is avoided.  I edited the pdf_slice.ps back
> down to just two entries per page, did:
> 
>  gs -sFile=test.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=killme.pdf
>      pdf_slice.ps
> 
> and hit return 40 times times (until it started showing GS> prompts)
> then quit.

You could use -dBATCH and -dNOPAUSE which avoid the 'press any key' 
between pages prompt and also exits at the end of the job.


> The resulting killme.pdf file had the expected number of pages, but
> they were
> all blank when viewed with either xpdf or PDF XChange Viewer.  Same
> thing with the pswrite device when viewed with gv.  Using the default
> X11 device every page had something on it. The pdf and ps files
> produced were quite large, they just are not displaying correctly.

Well, I only checked it with a simple PDF file I had here, not a real 
example. If you could let me have a real example I could be more certain 
that the code works. In any event, I'm going to have a play withh it 
based on your last message.


			Ken

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Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 09:03 -0700
  Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 10:41 -0700
    Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-22 19:36 +0100
      Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 13:01 -0700
        Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-22 21:50 +0100
  Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-22 19:33 +0100
  Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-23 16:10 +0100
    Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-23 08:50 -0700
      Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-23 21:29 +0100
        Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-25 12:03 +0100
      Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 08:40 -0700
        Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-26 17:21 +0100
          Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 13:23 -0700
            Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-04-27 08:31 +0100

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