Split the pages out of a PDF, or merge PDFs into one
Using the free open source program PDF Toolkit, you can operate on PDFs quite easily.
Install the open-source PDF Toolkit
Get the PDF Toolkit package, available for Windows, Mac OSX 10.3+ (or build from source for earlier Mac OSs) and Linux.
It’s in the Ubuntu repositories:
sudo apt-get install pdftk Split pages from a PDF
To split out pages 10-15 and page 19 of whole.pdf into a separate PDF, piece.pdf, run
pdftk whole.pdf cat 10-15 19 output piece.pdf
Merge multiple PDFs into one
To combine first.pdf, second.pdf, and third.pdf into big.pdf, use
pdftk first.pdf second.pdf third.pdf cat output big.pdfOther examples here
Tags: linux, open source, osx, pdf, ubuntu
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 am
Some days ago I found a python package which deals with a quite similar topic: pdfrecycle. Maybe someone finds it that usefull as I did.
I use it for resizing pdfs.
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http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfrecycle/
and the documentation
http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/pdfrecycle/doc/