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Archive for January, 2006

Rapid PDF Splitting/Joining

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I had need this afternoon of a rapid way to take parts of preexisting PDF files and stitch them together without the possibility of quality loss. I found joinPDF, a tiny java program (and appropiate script) which does both of these things from the command line very, very fast.

All I ended up typing was:
./splitPDF Commendation.pdf
./splitPDF Resume.pdf
./joinPDF all.pdf Resume_page1.pdf Commendation_page2.pdf Resume_page2.pdf

and … bam! Resume PDF with a letter in between the body and the references.

I fiddled with LaTeX and GhostScript to do the same thing before finding joinPDF but the results I was getting were ugly, while textually correct. That’s my system’s fault, some font is not copied to a location where GhostScript could find. Rather than fix that I found joinPDF. So… enjoy.

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William, your neighborhood Sith Lord

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The Pirate Problem

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Skype

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‘Stupid In America’

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Vice City and Jedi Academy

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PEBS: Pug’s Extensible (Remote) Backup System

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster, soon in paperback!

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Darwinia

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