Splitting PDF files

[LasseThid]

I have a customer who sends us pdf files for posters we are to print.
Each file can contain hundreds of 70x100 cm posters (heavily compressed images) and if I drop one of those files into our workflow or on GMG Color Server it will bring the system to a halt, so I created a flow that will split the pdf file into single pages, color match each individual page and the re-assemble the pages into one file. However... If I send a 2 Gb pdf to Split PDF (the obvious choice) it will crash with a time out error after about 20 minutes, so I started looking at the Adobe Acrobat Professional configurator instead and it worked nicely with a 12 page file @ 150 Mb, but it too will crash after a while when I send a file of 1-2 Gb to it.
Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
Thanks in advance

[Zoranj]

Thing that comes to my mind is try Pdftk, but I doubt it will work.
Another thing is maybe to try to split file in two, than those two in 4, etc.. again, not sure if it would help.
If you post the file, maybe someone can try different approach?

[beastridge]

Take a look at your preferences and make sure you are not timing out after x minutes.

[jan_suhr]

Hi Lars,

pdftk can do this for you with the command "burst"

Try in the Terminal,

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pdftk A="your huge posterfile" burst output "path to where you want them single page files"

you can add _page_%04d to the end of the filename to get the page number added to the filename.

[LasseThid]

Take a look at your preferences and make sure you are not timing out after x minutes.

Thanks beastridge! The time out is set to 20 minutes, so I guess I'll either have to increase that value or try the solution suggested by Jan.

[LasseThid]

Hi Lars,

pdftk can do this for you with the command "burst"

Try in the Terminal,

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pdftk A="your huge posterfile" burst output "path to where you want them single page files"

you can add _page_%04d to the end of the filename to get the page number added to the filename.

Thanks Jan. I'll try to find the time to look at Pdftk.

[shimbu]

I would try Callas PdfToolbox called from CLI or using Switch configurator (a bit complicated approach).
I’m posting this answer cause You know, themore choices the better!
Regards
Shim

[LasseThid]

Thanks Shim.

The more the merrier as they say...