new things

pdfsplit

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+#!/bin/bash
+if [ "$1" == "-h" ] ; then
+    echo "
+        pdfsplit - extract a range of pdf pages with ghostscript
+
+         usage:
+          pdfsplit firstPage lastPage inputFile.pdf
+
+        output file will be named inputfile_pXX-pYY.pdf
+
+         depends:
+          gs - ghostscript 
+
+          "
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# the following is from a stackoverflow answer
+# function pdfsplit()
+# {
+    # this function uses 3 arguments:
+    #     $1 is the first page of the range to extract
+    #     $2 is the last page of the range to extract
+    #     $3 is the input file
+    gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
+       -dFirstPage=${1} \
+       -dLastPage=${2} \
+       -sOutputFile=${3%.pdf}_p${1}-p${2}.pdf \
+       ${3}
+# }
+