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Subject:Re: Problem with a large PDF From:"Martin Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 May 2002 12:52:48 +0100
Kevin
No need to hack the PDFs up - though I admire your Viking approach :).
Instead, use WinZip or the Windows back up tool, both of which have
disk-spanning features.
You may already have WinZip installed.
In an explorer window, right click on the file icon and see what comes up.
If there's an "Add to zip" use that. For WindowsXP, try Send To > Compressed
(zipped) Folder.
(I think you can still get a free download of WinZip, or get it off a PC
magazine utilities disk.)
Backup is less friendly. You'll find it from the start menu:
Programs>Accessories>System Tools.
Hope this helps
M
"webmaster" <webmaster -at- fullcompass -dot- com> wrote in message news:155291 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> 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?
>
> Searched the web for this situation but no luck.
>
> Thanks for any help on this,
> Kevin
>
>
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