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johnnytruant · 01-12-2008, 07:13 AM

First, apologies if I've just failed to find the answer to this in these forums already - I did try some searches, but without much luck.

So, situation: I have some ebook pdfs (duh), which are mostly US Letter and A4. I would like them to be repaginated onto 12x15 pages so I can read them on my shiny new iliad without messing about with zoom etc.

How best to do that? I've tried doing 'Print Setup --> 12x15 --> Print to file' in evince, and that resizes the pages, but it doesn't repaginate (ie, a 500 page A4 pdf becomes a 500 page iLiad-size-pdf, with corrospondingly small text).

If the starting format isn't pdf, OpenOffice exports a lovely pdf from rtf, but it won't open PDFs initially. I've tried converting the pdfs to PostScript, but then that won't open in OO, or Scribus (scribus creates millions - and I mean millions - of Document-xxxxxx-.dat files on PS import)

I'm totally stumped at the moment. The best I've done so far is convert a PDF into a PostScript file which I then can't open in anything (except evince, which still won't let me repaginate, as described above). PDFedit looks great if you want to change text in a PDF, but I can't find anywhere that lets me change paper size. pdftk again looks great for doing anything except this one thing I want to do..

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

01-12-2008, 07:13 AM	#1
johnnytruant Member Posts: 23 Karma: 149 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: iRex iLiad, Aura HD	manipulating/converting pdfs under linux First, apologies if I've just failed to find the answer to this in these forums already - I did try some searches, but without much luck. So, situation: I have some ebook pdfs (duh), which are mostly US Letter and A4. I would like them to be repaginated onto 12x15 pages so I can read them on my shiny new iliad without messing about with zoom etc. How best to do that? I've tried doing 'Print Setup --> 12x15 --> Print to file' in evince, and that resizes the pages, but it doesn't repaginate (ie, a 500 page A4 pdf becomes a 500 page iLiad-size-pdf, with corrospondingly small text). If the starting format isn't pdf, OpenOffice exports a lovely pdf from rtf, but it won't open PDFs initially. I've tried converting the pdfs to PostScript, but then that won't open in OO, or Scribus (scribus creates millions - and I mean millions - of Document-xxxxxx-.dat files on PS import) I'm totally stumped at the moment. The best I've done so far is convert a PDF into a PostScript file which I then can't open in anything (except evince, which still won't let me repaginate, as described above). PDFedit looks great if you want to change text in a PDF, but I can't find anywhere that lets me change paper size. pdftk again looks great for doing anything except this one thing I want to do.. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.