Breaking out a PDF

[Skip Kimpel]

Roger,

They are not created by me.... a bunch of forms (200+ pages combined into 1
PDF) that are 1 pager's (8.5x11) and each page in the PDF needs to be
broken out into it's own file.

I am scared of your example :)

SKIP

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
wrote:

> Are these PDFs created by you with LiveCode, or coming from other unknown
> or varying programs?  Is is all text, or a mixture of content?
>
> A PDF built to the older PDF-1.4 spec, is fairly simple to construct from
> scratch using just text.  Example: Paste the following into notepad, and
> save it.  Change the extension to .pdf.  MediaBox is the page size in
> points (Points are roughly 1/72 of an inch).  All measurements are in
> points.
>
>
> %PDF-1.4
> 1 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Catalog
> /Pages 3 0 R
> /Outlines 2 0 R
> >>
> endobj
> 2 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Outlines
> /Count 0
> >>
> endobj
> 3 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Pages
> /Count 1
> /Kids [ 4 0 R ]
> >>
> endobj
> 4 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Page
> /Parent 3 0 R
> /Resources << /Font << /F1 7 0 R >> /ProcSet 6 0 R >>
> /MediaBox [0 0 366 160]
> /Contents 5 0 R
> >>
> endobj
> 5 0 obj
> <<
> /Length 80
> >>
> stream
> 1 w
> 0 160 m
> 0 0 l
> 366 0 l
> 366 160 l
> 0 160 l
> s
> BT
> /F1 7.5 Tf
> 20 122 Td (Hello World) Tj
> ET
> endstream
> endobj
> 6 0 obj
> [ /PDF /Text ]
> endobj
> 7 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Font
> /Subtype /TrueType
> /Name /F1
> /BaseFont /CourierNew,Bold
> /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding
> >>
> endobj
> xref
> 0 8
> 0000000000 65535 f
> 0000000009 00000 n
> 0000000074 00000 n
> 0000000120 00000 n
> 0000000179 00000 n
> 0000000322 00000 n
> 0000000415 00000 n
> 0000000445 00000 n
> trailer
> <<
> /Size 8
> /Root 1 0 R
> >>
> startxref
> 553
> %%EOF
>
>
>
> Roger Eller
> Graphics Systems Analyst
>
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> SealedAir.com <http://www.sealedair.com/> Roger.E.Eller at SealedAir.com
> <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the input.  Kind of what I thought but was looking for some
> > feedback to confirm this before I started down that path.
> >
> > SKIP
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has anybody taken a PDF, read it into LC and then split that PDF and
> > > > created multiple PDF documents from it?  Looking to create a
> > streamlined
> > > > way of doing this an a continuous basis.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Playing with PDF is a nightmare.
> > >
> > > I've looked at it, ad there are two many inconsistent ways to write a
> > pdf.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, there are no two programs that are actually
> > > compatible with one another in handling pdfs.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> > > (702) 508-8462
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