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Slice and Dice PDF

Mar 24, 2009  By Janos Gyerik
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Using poppler-tools and psutils, you can extract a range of pages from a larger PDF file. For example, if you want to extract pages 11–14 of the PDF file afile.pdf, you could use the following command:

$ pdftops afile.pdf - | psselect -p11-14 | ps2pdf - file-p11-14.pdf

The pdftops command converts the PDF file to PostScript; the psselect command selects the relevant pages from the PostScript, and the ps2pdf command converts the selected PostScript into a new PDF file.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 22:21.

This and comments give me things to investigate tomorrow, but I have been looking for something that simply combines pdfs or images into one pdf.

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Submitted by Whitening System (not verified) on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 04:01.

Poppler-tools and psutils if actually can command over the PDF file then great…!

Seriously I agree using

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Submitted by Dentist Melbourne (not verified) on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 23:25.

Seriously I agree using poppler-tools and psutils, you can extract a range of pages from a larger PDF file.

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Submitted by bmx bikes (not verified) on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 23:05.

I found this option really of good use and great significance

pdftk is better

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Submitted by Tig (not verified) on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 12:55.

I like to use pdftk for such things. The above line translates to:

"pdftk A=afile.pdf cat A11-14 output file-p11-14.pdf"

No converting to and from postscript.

There is another option

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Submitted by Stavros Christoforou (not verified) on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 12:27.

You could use pdftk, which does everything without the need for conversion to/from ps.