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Split a PDF into separate files containing colour and B&W pages

February 20th, 2007 by chris

The pdfcolour utility allows one to split a PDF file apart to give two separate PDFs, one containing the colour pages and the other containing the B&W pages. That way, one can easily print the B&W pages on a faster, cheaper printer and reassemble the document by hand.

Instructions:

Download the pdfcolour-1.0.tgz file.
Extract it using tar -xzf pdfcolour-1.0.tgz
Recompile if necessary using the command “make”.
Run on a PDF with splitcolour input.pdf bw.pdf colour.pdf

For our American friends, this program will split a PDF into separate color and black/white files.

3 Responses to “Split a PDF into separate files containing colour and B&W pages”

  1. on 13 Nov 2007 at 11:50 pm1 Carlos P

    Yo, this is exactly what I’m looking for to split my thesis in colour / BW stuff. Thanks and we will see how it works!

    Carlos

  2. on 14 Nov 2007 at 12:18 am2 Carlos P

    Actually it did not create the files, but I needed only the list of color/BW pages to give it to the guys printing the thesis. That worked though.

  3. on 22 Feb 2008 at 4:58 am3 christophe

    Hi,

    Is there a way to run the program on windows XP?

    Kind regards,

    Christophe

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