First, I use Linux, not Windows, so I can't test this, but I think something like this is right. (I'm almost tempted to tell you to install Linux inside a virtual machine for this, since stuff like this is sooo much easier with a grown-up operating system, but anyway, here goes my best bet for using Windows.)
First, open a Command/Dos prompt.
To navigate to the folder where your files are, use the CD command followed by the full path to your files in quotation marks. For example, if they are in "C:\Users\Somebody\Documents and Settings\My Documents\PDFs\", then type:
cd "C:\Users\Somebody\Documents and Settings\My Documents\PDFs\"
I think an alternative would be to simply create a batch file inside the same directory as the PDF and run the batch file from there.
OK, now I think you'll have to use the complete path to the Ghostscript executable, which you'll have to find for yourself. I'm going to assume it's "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.00\bin\gswin32c.exe" but you'll need to double check that on your own computer. If you're using a different version of ghostscript, or a 32 bit version of Windows 7, it'll be somewhere else. Also make sure you use gswin32c.exe and not gswin32.exe, which is different.
Now find out exactly how many pages are in this PDF. I would know how to do that with a command in Linux, but I have no clue in Windows. I'm going to suppose it's 3002.
Now type in this command at the Command prompt (all one line):
FOR \L %G IN (1,1,3002) DO "C:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs9.00\bin\gswin32c.exe" -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=%G -dLastPage=%G -sDEVICE=pswrite -o hello%G.ps hello.pdf
That's my best guess. But hopefully someone who actually uses Windows can confirm that this works.
For epsfiles instead change -sDEVICE#pswrite
to -sDEVICE=epswrite
and change hello%G.ps
to hello%G.eps
.
If you're using a batch file instead, use %%G instead of %G everywhere, change the ='s to #'s.
If "hello.pdf" is changed to something with spaces in it, use quotation marks, "hello world.pdf". Same for "hello%G.ps".
On GNU/Linux (or Mac OS X), the corresponding command would be:
for G in {1..3002} ; do gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=$G -dLastPage=$G -sDEVICE=pswrite -o "hello$G.ps" "hello.pdf" ; done
to have it autocalculate the number of pages to do, if you have seq and the poppler utilities installed (which come by default on Ubuntu, I believe), you could use:
for G in $(seq 1 $(pdfinfo academicregs.pdf | sed -n 's/Pages:[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p')) ; do gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=$G -dLastPage=$G -sDEVICE=pswrite -o "hello$G.ps" "hello.pdf" ; done
Those I've tested and they work.
Wow, thanks. I'm about to install (dual-boot) Ubuntu 10.04 (or 10.04, or 9.10) to be able to work with such things. I only run Win7 now, because work requires it. Your explanation is quite good, so I will give it a try. If you can, could you also explain it in such a nice way for Ubuntu? Thanks a lot. This command line stuff is kinda gibberish to me. – godzilla_g – 2010-12-26T20:49:58.943
I'll edit my answer to include instructions for linux. – frabjous – 2010-12-26T20:59:07.833