[NTLUG:Discuss] Split a PDF File in Linux

Kenneth Loafman kenneth at loafman.com
Wed Apr 23 19:12:08 CDT 2008


Ted Gould wrote:
> 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).

Try 'pdfedit' GUI.  Its fairly easy to extract just what you need.

...Ken



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