[GRLUG] Split multiplage postscript into individual pages

[Godwin]

Thanks John, it's helpful indeed.   I'll get back into it tomorrow (or
rather 9 hours from now), where I think I found a good combo.  Your
solution, though, opens up the possibility of skipping one extra step
for me (converting from original PS to PDF).  I'd have to know the
number of pages, which always vary, but I can (somewhat) easily
extract that from the original PS.

I can probably then use "ps2ascii" and grep STDOUT for a particular
string - in order to rename the original file.  Simple ps2tiff
conversion after that and I'm in business.

Wow, thanks gang.  GRLUG rocks!  (...and not just 'cause I'm one of
the original founders - and Eric).   I know, cheesy.  Feel free to
flame.  I'll redirect to /dev/null.   ;-)

cheers,
G-


On 5/7/08, John Harig <radiodurans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I came home from work tonight and saw your posting,
>  and decided that I would try to come up with a
>  solution.
>
>  I still feel like a newbie but I really want to learn
>  and I have some LaTeX experience so. . .
>
>  Borrowing from a couple different sources I think I
>  have come up with an elegant solution. . .and I'm a
>  bit happy that I figured it out more or less on my own
>  from references and googling.
>
>  1) Install psutils if you haven't already, to use
>  psselect
>  2) Write a script with bash for psselect (I don't know
>  bash but it didn't take me too long to figure this out
>  with a little help from references)
>
>  3) This is what i came up with for your case to enter
>  at bash prompt:
>
>  for page in `seq 1 500`; do psselect -p$page infile.ps
>  outfile$page.ps; done
>
>  I tested it on a 15 page ps (for page in `seq 1 15`)
>  and it worked perfectly :)
>
>
>  --- Godwin <geektoyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Thanks John, I'm playing with "ps2pdf", "pdftk" and
>  > "pdftotext" with
>  > output to standard out to do this:
>  >
>  > 1. convert original PS to PDF
>  > 2. Split PDF into individual files (pdftk infile.pdf
>  > burst)
>  > 3. Use pdftotext and send output to STDOUT to parse
>  > (with grep, awk,
>  > etc.) for the desired string.
>  >
>  > Now I just have to rename the PDF (single page) file
>  > then finally
>  > convert to TIFF.  I need individual TIFF images
>  > named in such a way as
>  > to have a 3rd party software import those and
>  > categorize them based on
>  > their name - so that an in-house web-driven gui
>  > allows users to
>  > process them.  Yeah, rather convoluted.  I think I'm
>  > on the right
>  > track (for now).  I'll post again if I run into
>  > something.
>  >
>  > Thanks all,
>  > G-
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:33 PM, John J Foerch
>  > <jjfoerch at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  > > Godwin writes:
>  > >   > Oh, I can split/convert to PDF/TIFF alright.
>  > The problem is that both
>  > >   > PS and PDF output have (what I call) "binary"
>  > output like this:
>  > >   >
>  > >
>  > >  Hi Godwin,
>  > >
>  > >  The terms I use are "vector format" and
>  > "rasterized format".  You
>  > >  correctly observed that gs can only create
>  > rasterized output, because
>  > >  its function is to render documents into bitmaps.
>  >  This terminology
>  > >  may not be official, but it is commonly used in
>  > connection with
>  > >  imagemagick, a program/library I use a lot.
>  > >
>  > >  Do you still need a way to convert vector-PS to
>  > vector-PDF, or are you set?
>  > >
>  > >  --
>  > >  John Foerch
>  > >
>  > >
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