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I need to crop a few pdf files, to create four pages from each source page. I know, hot to do that with ImageMagick, but it can't work with vector images, which pdf is, so the resulting quality is far from good. Is there any programme, which would let me do this and not lose image (mostly,text, actually) quality?

EDIT: I want this. I have a pdf file, created from a presentation, and each page of it contains 4 slides from a presentation.

I want each of these pages to became a separate page.

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Here are a couple of tools that can manipulate PDF files:

  • pdftk "If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents."
  • pdfsam (PDF Split and Merge): "pdfsam is an open source tool (GPL license) designed to handle pdf files"
  • PDFJam "A small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to much of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages PDF file package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX." (You can also use pdfLaTeX directly.)

Example

So you want to remove 'page 13' from in1.pdf to create out1.pdf:

pdftk in.pdf cat 1-12 14-end output out1.pdf

Converting 2-Up, 4-Up back to 1-Up

The OP modified the question afterwards and added some additional requirements. They were looking to be able to take a 2-Up or 4-Up PDF file and convert it to a 1-Up PDF file. This tool looks like it can do this.

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