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Jeremias Keihsler, 05.03.2026 19:21
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| 3 | h2. splitting pdf in ranges |
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| 5 | qpdf is doing the job |
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| 7 | <pre><code class="shell"> |
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| 8 | qpdf really_large.pdf --pages . 1739-1987 -- really_large_section.pdf |
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| 9 | </code></pre> |
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| 11 | but qpdf is lossless, so the size of the pdf stays basically unchanged. |
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| 12 | To resize the pdf, let's rerender it and save only the needed content. |
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| 14 | <pre><code class="shell"> |
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| 15 | gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=really_large_section.pdf_small.pdf really_large_section.pdf |
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| 16 | </code></pre> |