https://bogdan.org.ua/2008/10/30/how-to-print-a-single-page-from-pdf-file-using-linux-command-line-interface-cli.html Tiny bits of bioinformatics, [web-]programming etc Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 https://bogdan.org.ua/2008/10/30/how-to-print-a-single-page-from-pdf-file-using-linux-command-line-interface-cli.html#comment-86019 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:39:09 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=433#comment-86019 Well, if it were free, one could have the source code of it – which is not the case; thus, it is *not* free – instead, it is provided “free of charge”, which doesn’t count as “FREE” in GNU/GPL/Debian sense of word.

]]> https://bogdan.org.ua/2008/10/30/how-to-print-a-single-page-from-pdf-file-using-linux-command-line-interface-cli.html#comment-86000 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:09:58 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=433#comment-86000 [snip]
acroread -toPostScript (which uses non-free Adobe Acrobat Reader in CLI mode to convert PDF to PS).
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Well, that’s not entirely true. Adobe Reader is free for Windows, Mac and Unix.
One doesn’t need Adobe Acrobat for -toPostScript (which, incidentally, is not even available for Linux).

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