[Gllug] Printing part of each of a large number of PDFs

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Fri Dec 2 11:09:11 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:13 +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> [051202 08:05]:
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a PDF handling utility which will allow me to print
> > the first two pages of all of them automatically?  Loading them one by
> > one into a PDF reader and then printing the first two pages is very
> > tedious.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> pdf2ps file.pdf | lpr -o page-ranges=1-2 -
> 
> should work?

Thank you - that nearly worked and enabled me to get there:

pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr -o page-ranges=1-2

John

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