gs pdf tiff for multiple pages [ AM I CRAZY ?]

[C M Reinehr]

On Wed 16 December 2009 03:15:56 pm Vu Pham wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 03:12 PM, Vu Pham wrote:
> > On 12/16/2009 03:03 PM, Vu Pham wrote:
> >> I use the following command to convert a pdf file to a tiff file:
> >>
> >> #gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4
> >> -sOutputFile=/home/vu/test/b.tif /home/vu/test/b.pdf
> >>
> >> This command converts only the first page of the pdf.
> >>
> >> I can use %d in the output file to have multiple output files, each for
> >> one page of the Pdf:
> >> #gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4
> >> -sOutputFile=/home/vu/test/b%4.tif /home/vu/test/b.pdf
> >
> > I just found out that the 2nd command will create multiple tif files and
> > although they have different sizes, each of them has the same number of
> > pages of the pdf, and its content is the same as the whole pdf. ???
> >
> > I thought it would output each tif file as one page of the original pdf.
> >
> > So now I can have one tif file with mutiple pages, but why gs won't
> > outout it without the %d in the command line ? Bugs or am I missing some
> > thing ?
>
> I am crazy now. In fact, each tif file is just one page, but if there
> are in the same folder, then the Gnome Eye will treat them as one page
> with multiple files inside. i.e., if I have b1,b2,b3 and b4 then open b1
> will show that b1 has 4 pages. If I delete b2, b3 and b4, so it opens b1
> as one page !!!!!!!
>
> Sorry, so I go back to my original question

You might also want to check out pdftk (package by the same name) as a simple 
way to burst your PDF file into single pages.

cmr


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