Sheila Thomas writes
> I often come across conference proceedings as a PDF file containing over
> 500 pages, but yesterday I started working with a conference where the
> main proceedings is on one PDF file of over 5000 pages and the
> supplement is in a separate file of over 1000 pages. Most of the PCs in
> our library are not powerful enough to open either of these files.
>
> I'll leave the topic of conference proceedings presented in fancy
> proprietary software packages for another day.
PDF is a format, not a software package. There are free, open-source
PDF readers around, such as xpdf
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
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.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel
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