I had to read the *pdf included. I got qpdf to strip pp 1 to 5 and keep the rest. Its also in ./pkgsrc . Thanks again.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:38 PM Todd Gruhn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks! This doc is about 590pp long. > We will see if this helps... > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:06 PM J. Lewis Muir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 10/04, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > Is there a nice way to edit a PDF, and delete the blank page(s) at > > > the beginning of the document? > > > > QPDF > > > > https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf > > > > is a command-line program that can delete pages. The way you delete > > pages is by extracting pages from the original PDF to create a new PDF > > with the pages you want to delete omitted. For example, to delete pages > > 1-9 and 13 from a 14-page PDF named in.pdf: > > > > $ qpdf in.pdf out.pdf --pages in.pdf 10-12,14 -- > > > > Here are some other command-line programs that can delete pages that I > > think are probably good but that I've never actually used myself: > > > > * PDFtk Server > > > > https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ > > > > * pdfjam > > > > https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam > > > > Lewis
