Today I needed to remove some pages from a bunch of PDF files. In search of a tool, I came across the article Manipulating PDFs with the PDF Toolkit. To cut out pages 10-25 from a PDF type:
pdftk old.pdf cat 1-9 26-end output new.pdf
If you don’t have it already, you need to install the Ubuntu/Debian package pdftk first.
In related news: It’s Christmas. So merry Christmas to everyone. I will be quite busy between the years (a translation of zwischen den Jahren, an expression used in Germany to describe the time between Christmas and the first day of the new year). I will participate in a bunch of Christmas-related events today and tomorrow and will be at the 23rd Chaos Comminication Congress in Berlin from December 26. See you there!
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Thanks for the useful reminder of how to slice a pdf
Thanks – was getting random crashes with the gui utilities, pdfmod and pdfshuffler, but this did the trick in seconds.
Thank you very much for the info. done in a snap…
That worked perfectly…I used it to slice the ‘Notes’ slides away from the ‘Normal’ slides on a pdf generated by OpenOffice Impress. It was FAST too!! Many thanks!!!
Danke für den Tipp, Patrick! So trifft man sich wieder ;)
Lg aus Wien
Thanx a lot! This pdftk program works perfectly, it is basically the pdf equivalent of psselect that I use when I need to slice postscript.
You could also use Xournal, a pdf annotation tool. Really handy.