I use pdfunit to combine a bunch of pdf's of receipts, I have a little script that I run that grabs all of the receipts in the [receipt] directory and creates a single pdf with the receipts in it. Great tools...
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:22 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/5/20 5:51 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks. I'll keep those in mind. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
