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From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 12:50
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:18:09 GMT, Lutrin wrote:
>> Do you know of any software that can automatically break a PDF into
>> 1000K sequential documents?
> *pdfsam*
> - http://www.pdfsam.org/
> has *split by size* feature that you are looking for

I finally got PDFsam downloaded, installed, tested, and working for my
needs. My goal was PDF files less than 1,000 KB (due to an exact size forum
upload limitation).

Bear in mind, that "split by size" feature has algorithmic problems if you
really care about the resulting file size. To be fair, if you only care in
general amounts (plus or minus 25% or 35%), then the program works as
desired; but that "split by size" feature should be named something like
"split approximately by size, more or less".

But, I was successful in coming up with a (relatively) efficient algorithm
that served my exact needs.

Interestingly enough, in order to make the process bearable, I had to
actually COMBINE both Adobe Acrobat Professional version 6 and PDF Split
And Merge version 2.2.0.

What I did was select 900KB as the file size to aim for (remember, I need
it to be less than 1,000 KB exactly as 1,001 KB is too large); then, for
the resulting two or three files that were greater than 1,000 KB, I ran the
Adobe Acrobat "Shrink file size" feature, which shrank the PDFsam results
to below the 1,000 KB limit.

Interstingly, the default option in PDFSam to "compress output file/files"
was set, as was the "Version 1.5 (Acrobat 6)" but apparently PDFSam's
compression algorithm stinks in comparison to what Adobe Acrobat 6
Professional does.

End result: Success.
The PDFsam split and merge program, combined with Adobe Acrobat
compression, was able to quickly split a 327-page 4.5MB file into six
less-than-1,000KB PDF files suitable to post in 1,000KB size-limited
forums.
From: Judy Zappacosta on 7 Jul 2010 19:19
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 19:44:06 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta wrote:

> Do you know of any software that can automatically break a PDF into 1000K
> sequential documents?

BTW, PDFsam had an unintended bonus feature!

It removes the permissions in a PDF that prevent the PDF from being split.
Which means, it creates a NEW PDF that doesn't have the protections.

I used to remove those protections with "The Gimp", but, now I can just
remove them with PDFsam simply by specifying a file size in PDFsam that is
larger than the original file size.

Result should be the same file, but without the PDF edit protection!
From: Judy Zappacosta on 7 Jul 2010 20:39
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:47:31 GMT, Lutrin wrote:

> see furtherly about pdftk here:
> http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

I love your adverbs too! You (and I) try to speak rightly! :)
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