medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Al Magary had written on splitting/merging applications for .pdf files:
>> I'm doing all this on a PC with XP. I'm sure the Macworld has similar
> utilities.
and Christopher Crockett put a pebble on his cybershoulder and dared Mac
users to knock it off by writing:
> your faith in MacWorld is clearly stronger than my own.
See:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ (free)
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/index.html ($50)
and I believe I've read of other similar apps on the Mac OS X TeX list;
certainly the full Adobe Acrobat can do it. At the same time, I'm not sure
how useful such a utility that would be for personal users who download
these Gallica-type files; is it really easier to use two 500-page .pdf
documents than to use one unsplit 1000-page one you've downloaded? The
people who ought to be using splitting utilities are the archivists who
make the files available; perhaps ideally both as single large files for
those with storage and bandwidth to spare, and also as multiple files for
the convenience of those with little storage, slow connections, or both.
Al also wrote:
>> At this moment I don't know how to solve the big-file downloading
> problem: how to keep FTP or websites from serving forth crash-inducing
> files.
http://www.captainftp.com/ ($25 shareware)
allows something they call "segmented download" which might take care of
the problem. I think I've read that ftp.app or some other file transfer
program that's part of the Unix underpinnings of OS X lets you start and
stop transfers, but again I've forgotten important details.
For more on Mac FTP clients, see:
http://www.macorchard.com/filetransfer/
Fetch, Hefty, Monica, and NetFinder all let you start and stop transfers,
and I suspect other Mac GUI ftp clients do too.
cc also lamented:
> if i can't download it, i can't even burn it on a CD.
What's worse, there have been studies recently that suggest that CD-R
lifespans are not as great as we had all hoped, perhaps even as brief as 2
years:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=5574
One of these days I plan to get an external hard drive for back-up and
added storage, but it's one of those things that I keep putting off. The
key - both personal and institutional - is to keep migrating data ahead of
hardware failure and obsolescence.
John
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