02-02-2009, 05:02 PM | #16 | |
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Can anyone explain me better how to interpolate the pages because my Preview simply seems not to allow me to do it. Alternatively does anyone know how to do an automator action that would do the trick? |
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02-03-2009, 06:23 PM | #17 |
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Sorry if that's confusing... this is one of those 'easier than it sounds' types of things.
If you've made it that far, you have on file with all of your left hand pages, and one file with all of your right hand pages. Open the file that contains the first page (should be the left-hand-pages document, "File #1"). Make sure you have the Sidebar open ("View/Sidebar"; Cmd-Shift-D; or the "Sidebar" button in the top toolbar). In the bottom of the sidebar, there should be button with two little boxes beside two little lines. Click that, and choose "Thumbnails" from the three options. (This will ONLY WORK if you have the thumbnail view selected— I may not have made that clear enough last time.) The sidebar should now show scaled down previews of each page, laid out in a grid. (See the first attached image for how it should look.) Now open your other file (right-hand pages, File #2) and set it up the same way, with thumbnail views. In File #2, the first page in it should be the second page of what will eventually be your finished document. Click and hold the thumbnail of the first page in File #2, then drag it over and drop it next to the thumbnail of the first page in File #1. A little red bar should appear to show where the page will be dropped. (See the 2nd attached image) Now comes the tedious part of dragging each right hand page from File #2 to the correct place in File #1, making sure all your page numbers end up in order. Once you've done that, just Save! Just lemme know if you need any more clarification. Last edited by senseabove; 02-03-2009 at 06:26 PM. |
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It must be because I'm running Tiger and you should be running Leopard. |
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02-05-2009, 02:46 PM | #19 |
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PDFill PDF Editor Tools allow you to do that and its free.
http://www.pdfill.com/ (it's for windows only but if you have a mac you can always use a virtualization software to run it) First it's better to remove all pages (cover, etc.) that are not formatted in double column (you can reinsert them later). You need then to make two copy of the resulting PDF. Then using the crop command, in the first copy you crop the right side of all the pages, keeping only the first column. In the second copy you keep the second column only. After that you merge the two files, and then reorder the pages using the reorder function like this : For a 100 pages PDF : pages 1,51,2,52, etc. (you can use Excel & word to generate and copy/paste the list quickly) After that you can reinsert the cover and other normally formatted pages you removed first. Making the first conversion is a bit tedious but once you know your way around the software it's very fast as all the steps are automated. It's also works for every double column pdf, while with some bad pdf relying on the reflow function will mess up the text. (The reflow displays first the first paragraph of the first column, then the first paragraph of the second column, then goes back to the first, etc. ) Last edited by Faenad; 02-05-2009 at 02:48 PM. |
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02-20-2009, 11:07 AM | #22 |
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No I don't have a mac. You should try it, seems that this program may allow you to do the same than PDFill.
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Didn't work
I tried this on a windows xp laptop. Followed the directions precisely and it did not work.
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It must be because I'm running Tiger and you should be running Leopard.[/QUOTE]
I am running Tiger and don't have those two little boxes either. |
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Hi,
im a mac user and i suggest you to read https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14340 If the case is to convert pdf with images, i use the GREATEST ONE https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12790 this way i convert all pdf to images with a software i downloaded from mobileread (i dont remember name) and with the manga program it converts all double page image to single page image and make a new pdf |
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I had the same need but could not find a easy way to batch split double page PDFs. I ended writing this basic Perl script. (Contrary to the "Tile" hack using Acrobat, it should preserve the text layer). Thought it may be useful to others ...
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08-28-2009, 04:08 AM | #30 |
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Thanks, i-blis. That's a great tool. Your application is so much faster than the Adobe trick. It's really good!
It'd be great to have it in .exe format so that more people could use it. |
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