Manipulating PDF Documents
pdftk
(an Ubuntu package installed with
apt-get install pdftk
) is a great command-line tool for manipulating
pdf
files. Among other things it can
compress files and pull out specific pages to create a new document. Here is an example in which selected pages are stored to a new
pdf
file. This is useful when you want to ask someone to print only selected pages, instead of them having to specify the page numbers in the printing dialog.
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-12 14-end output out.pdf
pdftk
can join multiple input
pdf
files and do much more.
The
pdfshuffle
is a very intuitive approach to simple manipulations using only a graphical user interface. It is installed by going to
http://pdfshuffler.sourceforge.net to download the latest
debian
package, then:
sudo apt-get install python-pypdf
sudo dpkg -i pdfshuffler_..._all.deb
pdfshuffle
is especially helpful when you have a
pdf
file with some pages to remove and some pages to turn rightside-up. It can also merge files (by importing another file when one is already being viewed).