Bookbinder is a program that will convert a PDF document into signatures suitable for traditional bookbinding.
While there are a lot of programs on the net that will create a single booklet from a small document, I couldn’t find one that would turn a 500 page novel or textbook into several signatures. So I had to write one.

The chosen PDF is split into chunks, the page order of each chunk is rearranged, then the pages are placed two to a page in a new PDF. After printing and folding, each bundle of sheets should be a correctly ordered signature, ready for binding.

For more info, please visit http://www.quantumelephant.co.uk/bookbinder/bookbinder.html

The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version. It is an open source, GNU licensed project which is hosted on SourceForge.net.
For details, please visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/posterazor/

Overview

pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats.

Supported Formats

Currently pstoedit can generate the following major formats:

• Tgif .obj format (for tgif version >= 3)
• .fig format for xfig
• pdf - Adobe’s Portable Document Format
• gnuplot format
• Flattened PostScript (with or without Bezier curves)
• DXF - CAD exchange format
• LWO - LightWave 3D
• RIB - RenderMan
• RPL - Real3D
• Java 1 or Java 2 applet
• Idraw format (in fact a special form of EPS that idraw can read)
• Tcl/Tk
• HPGL
• AI (Adobe Illustrator) (based on ps2ai.ps - not a real pstoedit driver - see notes below and manual)
• Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
• Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
• OS/2 meta files (OS/2 only)
• PIC format for troff/groff
• MetaPost format for usage with TeX/LaTeX
• LaTeX2e picture
• Kontour
• GNU Metafile (plotutils / libplot)
• Skencil
• Mathematica
• via ImageMagick to any format supported by ImageMagick
• SWF

Besides these some further very special formats are supported. See the
pstoedit.htm for a complete list of available
drivers.

The following formats are available as additional plugins on a
shareware basis. See http://www.pstoedit.net/plugins/
for more details.

• (Frame)Maker Intermediate Format (MIF)
• CGM Format (both binary and textual)
• SVG - scalable vector format. One candidate of the W3C
  for a web standard for vector drawings. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
  for more details.
• Better Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (supports curves
  and compound pathes and does more accurate text
  formatting) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)
• RTF (MS Word) (Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista only)

Use PStoEdit directly by GsView

PStoEdit has a DLL which can be used directly by GSview.
PStoEdit can be used from GSview 2.8 or later, using “Edit | Convert to vector format”.
To use PStoEdit from GSview on Windows or OS/2, unzip the PStoEdit files into c:\ghostgum\pstoedit (assuming you installed GSview to the default location c:\ghostgum\gsview).