Breaking out a PDF

[Roger Eller]

LOL!

The content of my example is one line:   '20 122 Td (Hello World) Tj"
The rest is mostly static prologue setup to make it official.

You can script Adobe Acrobat Professional to split or combine pages.

~Roger



Roger Eller
Graphics Systems Analyst

803 North Maple Street P: 864.967.1625
Simpsonville, SC 29681 C: 864.908.0337
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<roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>



On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 803 North Maple Street P: 864.967.1625
> > Simpsonville, SC 29681 C: 864.908.0337
> > 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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