Poster printing without an A0 printer
By jeltsch on Thu, 05/15/2014 - 12:22
I failed to prepare my poster for the GRC conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Lymphatic Function & Disease in time.
English
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
Some useful PDF editing (and search) commands
By jeltsch on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 14:44- Insert pages with interleave:
pdftk A=input_odd_pages.pdf B=input_even_pages.pdf shuffle A B output collated.pdf(from the pdftk package) - Split an A2-sized PDF into two A3 pages for printing (no overlap):
pdfposter -m A3 -p A2 Periodic-Table_A2.pdf Periodic-Table_2xA3.pdf - Split an arbitrary-sized PDF into A3 pages for printing at 100% size (= 1), no overlap:
pdfposter -m A3 -s1 Poster.pdf Poster_split_to_A3.pdf
ps2pdf versus pstill and password protection of pdf documents
By jeltsch on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 21:55While reading about ps2pdf (which is just a commandline front-end to ghostscript), I realized that despite its simple appearance, ps2pdf has almost all capabilities of Acrobat 5. ps2pdf14 outputs Acrobat 5-compatible files. According to the documentation strong password protection should be possible, however, I never managed with that.
In theory the following commands should work:
-sOwnerPassword= and -sUserPassword=
In order to set the key length to 128 you have to use
ps2pdf14 -dEncryptionR=3 -dKeylength=128