[NTLUG:Discuss] Split a PDF File in Linux

Ted Gould ted at gould.cx
Wed Apr 23 17:17:54 CDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:32 -0500, Richard wrote:
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > I need to send just pages 13-16. I do not want them to see the whole
> > schematic.
> >
> > Is there a magic command or utility that will do this?
>
> Magic you say???   What about
> 
> http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/

PDF tk works great (crazy command line though).  Also you can open up
the PDF in a program like Evince and just print a couple of pages to
PDF.  Cat'ing PDFs is harder, and pdftk does that great too.

Lastly, if you need to edit the PDF, you can do that in the new version
of Inkscape (0.46).

			--Ted



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