Sheila
Assuming you have a PC capable of opening these very large PDF files,
they can easily be split up into smaller chunks using Adobe Acrobat
Professional - unlike Acrobat Reader this is not free, but it's not
particularly expensive to purchase.
However the question remains, why should you have to go to all of this
effort to make the files usable; why can't the publishers do the work
for you?
Andy Turner
Online Systems Manager
Thames Valley University
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> Subject: Re: Conference proceedings presented as very large PDF files
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> Thomas Krichel wrote on 22 April 2008 11:09
>
> > PDF is a format, not a software package.
>
> Yes, understood. We get many conference proceedings as PDF files. We
get
> them as Word files too, which OK. However, we also get them from time
to
> time in software packages which are less easy to deal with but, as I
> said, I won't go into that today.
>
> > There are free, open-source
> > PDF readers around, such as xpdf
> >
> > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
>
> We're all using Acrobat Reader 8 at present in our library, I believe.
>
> > With a bit of fiddling, it should be possbile to write a script
> > that splits the large PDF file into smaller files per paper
> > given at the conference.
>
> I'll see whether our IT dept. can do this for us.
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