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Re: Problem with a large PDF

Subject: Re: Problem with a large PDF
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:53:40 -0500


In our previous episode at 11:19 AM 5/23/02, webmaster wrote:

I have a pdf several MB in size. I want to split this up, store the parts
on floppies then rejoin the parts on another pc.

I have tried an easy approach, using notepad, but the rejoined file does
not work in Acrobat, can someone tell me why?

This is what I did: With cut & paste I split the pdf into three parts in
notepad, saving each as a separate .txt file, being careful not to lose any
characters in the process.

I then carefully rejoined the parts into a new notepad window using copy &
paste again, and then saving as a .pdf. This shows to be the same size as
the original but, when opened Acrobat is unable to display most of the
document, and error messages keep popping up if I try to scroll through the
pages.

For such a simple procedure, the pdf becomes unusable! Does anyone know
why?

I'm afraid splitting a PDF by that method is as likely to be useful as splitting a cat into three parts and expecting it to be functional when you rejoin the parts.

There are many file splitting utilities that will do what you need: cut files into disk-sized pieces, with a .bat file to put them back together.

I use File Split, which is available, along with several others, at http://www.cheta.net/shareware/apps/98/file-split.html.

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Beth Friedman / bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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