Printing long PDF documents is sometimes tedious, especially if you have a dull network printer. You might know the case that for mysterious reasons the printer just does nothing for a very long time and thereafter it seems to have forgotten about the actual print job.
Sometimes printing can still be accomplished by sending only a few pages of the PDF document in distinct print jobs. Doing this manually is also tedious, so here is a simple Python script that breaks up a PDF document into many PDFs with just 2 pages (using pdftk) and spools them via lpr (the package cups-pdf is required for this).
This blog is supposed to be a collection of random, unrelated, little ideas, thoughts, and discoveries, which I assume to be helpful to a negligible part of the world's population and wish to share out of pure altruism. If posts appear really weird, maybe you have the wrong kind of humor. Many of the posts are science/technology related. If you are opposed to that, stop reading here! Comments, criticism, corrections, amendments, questions are always welcome.
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