scienceoss.com » pdf http://scienceoss.com useful tidbits for using open source software in science Wed, 26 May 2010 03:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Converting between SVG, EPS, and PDF http://scienceoss.com/converting-between-svg-eps-and-pdf/ http://scienceoss.com/converting-between-svg-eps-and-pdf/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:13:20 +0000 ryan http://scienceoss.com/converting-between-svg-eps-and-pdf/ Sometimes you want to be able to tweak a plot in R that was saved as a PDF or an EPS.

Use this to convert an eps into svg for editing in Inkscape:

pstoedit -f plot-svg input.eps output.svg

Then save the SVG in Inkscape as a “Plain SVG”, and use

convert input.svg output.pdf
]]> http://scienceoss.com/converting-between-svg-eps-and-pdf/feed/ 0 Split the pages out of a PDF, or merge PDFs into one http://scienceoss.com/split-the-pages-out-of-a-pdf-or-merge-pdfs-into-one/ http://scienceoss.com/split-the-pages-out-of-a-pdf-or-merge-pdfs-into-one/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:49:12 +0000 ryan http://scienceoss.com/?p=79 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.pdf

Other examples here

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