medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Al Magary <[log in to unmask]>
> Resolved to solve the problem of either coping with or browsing big
PDFs--eg, the 1,281-page PDF of Chevalier's Bio-Bibliographie from Stanford
MMT (http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/detail?fileID=1948436820)-
that's 1,281 per volume, i believe. there are two volumes.
>-I went looking for a utility to carve up such files into bitesize pieces for
transfer or logical pieces for easier use (A, B, ..chapters... whatever).
> I found several free utilities for the first function and tested two of
them--Splitter Lite and Dariolius,
i've used Splitter, with mixed results; never tried Dariolius (nice,
pretentious name, though).
>For files in sophisticated formats like PDFs, they will just split files
and then merge them and things come out right, but you cannot view the pieces
separately.
a drawback.
ideally, the work should be in files of manageable size, named "A-D.pdf",
"E-H.pdf", etc.
> One utility that you can try for free that both splits/merges PDFs and
allows viewing of the pieces is PDF Split-Merge 2.0, from
> http://www.verypdf.com/pdfpg/
looks good.
> 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.
or just finding room on you'r 'puter to download such a large file --the
institutional machine i was working on yesterday wouldn't allow it.
if i can't download it, i can't even burn it on a CD.
> I'm doing all this on a PC with XP. I'm sure the Macworld has similar
utilities.
your faith in MacWorld is clearly stronger than my own.
c
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