On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Dick Steffens wrote:
I remember someone (Rich?) mentioning a program called something like pdftools. I'm having trouble locating same on my Xubuntu system. I've found qpdf installed, and I found some instructions online for using it, but following the instructions did not produce the desired results. I have a long pdf from which I want to extract pages 6 and 7. Here's what I tried:
Dick, pdftk is your friend: pdftk january-27-2020.pdf cat 6-7 output out.pdf Confirm that out.pdf (or whatever name you give the output) is what you want. In addition to pdftk (the pdf tool kit) there's pdfgrep which allows you to search .pdf files for strings just as grep works with text files and pdfjam which allows you to reformat page sizes of PDF files; e.g., you print a web page to a file and learn it's legal or A4 size so it won't fit on your letter size printer paper. pdfjam allows you to resize the document to fit. There's also MasterPDFEditor. The free version is really helpful for many things and the paid version allows much more manipulation. HTH, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
