Print very long PDF files by dividing into smaller chunks.

[timbaileyjones]

Hi, thanks for releasing pdftk. I have found it to be a very useful program.

I have a Brother Brother_MFC_L2710DW_series printer, basically a multi-function WIFI black/white laser printer with document feeder. I bought it because it works with Linux, without additional drivers. It prints small PDF files directly without incident.

However, for whatever reason, it blows up on larger files. I tried to print a 300+ page book of sheet music, and it blew up on page 24. Page 25 was all black, then there were no more pages.

I was able to work around it by using pdftk to break apart my 300+ file into 10-page chunks, and submit each chunk to lp.

My script that does this is here: https://github.com/timbaileyjones/chunked-pdf-printer

I hope someone finds my script useful. What would be even better, would be for pdftk itself to make my script obsolete by similarly breaking up a large PDF into more digestible chunks. You can consider this to be new feature request?

Thanks for making pdftk. It is what made my chunked-pdf-printer.sh script easy to write.