Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:36:16 -0500 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PDF: multiple slides per page to one slide per page? Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:36:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7d554826-c2b6-4dff-a363-8e8bf16c6798@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <5265d195-5351-49b9-8a08-9317546902ba@o21g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-AvLCJeq+BfoHq4eP7COuXHQJjCpU9mQin82xXAA8ePo5dNIcxGi4WMpAvGHoShEvbFSoLkxdk6BWkIJ!AJPUtW2RWKjR4hFNN1x+ACt2aBsNspDqNYXC8iyAvIwASqI8rY7OOVLbi+UJ1B1SUC1wAonVrb19!cyq0PLiiU2ycfg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2468 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:122 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