Convert a pdf

[Roger]

Hello
I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 pages 
and several middle pages then save the altered document either as pdf or 
something else.
Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in 
Fedora 19?

Thanks for any pointers
Roger

[Charlie Brune]

On 01/25/2014 04:48 AM, Roger wrote:
>  Hello
>  I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 
>  pages and several middle pages then save the altered document either 
>  as pdf or something else.
>  Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in 
>  Fedora 19?
>
>  Thanks for any pointers
>  Roger 
I have used this technique.  It offers an alternative to the pdftk tool 
mentioned in other posts.

Example:
     Original file is fred.pdf
     Target file is wilma.pdf
     We will extract pages 8 and 9

     pdftops fred.pdf - | psselect -p8-9 | ps2pdf14 - wilma.pdf

I don't know if this is easier or harder than doing the same thing with 
pdftk.

Charlie

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:03:49PM +1100, Anthony Shipman wrote:
>  On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:27:28 am Steven Stern wrote:
>  > On 01/25/2014 04:48 AM, Roger wrote:
>  > > Hello
>  > > I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  > > I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 pages
>  > > and several middle pages then save the altered document either as pdf or
>  > > something else.
>  > > Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in
>  > > Fedora 19?
>  
>  Does anyone know of a tool that can change or show the fonts in a pdf?
>  The pdftk previously mentioned does not seem to do that. 
try pdffonts from poppler-utils to see the font information.  I'm not
sure if changing the fonts is possible.

Hope this helps,

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[Steven Rosenberg]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com&gt; wrote:
>  pdf-shuffler
>
>  yum install pdfshuffler
>
>  I use it all the time to add or remove pages from PDF documents and to
>  rearrange pages. 

+1 for PDF Shuffler, which is super easy to use.
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[Anthony Shipman]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:27:28 am Steven Stern wrote:
>  On 01/25/2014 04:48 AM, Roger wrote:
>  > Hello
>  > I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  > I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 pages
>  > and several middle pages then save the altered document either as pdf or
>  > something else.
>  > Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in
>  > Fedora 19? 
Does anyone know of a tool that can change or show the fonts in a pdf?
The pdftk previously mentioned does not seem to do that.

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Anthony Shipman                    Mamas don't let your babies 
als(a)iinet.net.au                   grow up to be outsourced.

[SternData]

On 01/25/2014 04:48 AM, Roger wrote:
>  Hello
>  I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 pages
>  and several middle pages then save the altered document either as pdf or
>  something else.
>  Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in
>  Fedora 19?
>  
>  Thanks for any pointers
>  Roger 
pdf-shuffler

yum install pdfshuffler

I use it all the time to add or remove pages from PDF documents and to
rearrange pages.

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-- Steve

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Roger <arelem(a)bigpond.com&gt;:

>  Hello
>  I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20  
>  pages and several middle pages then save the altered document either  
>  as pdf or something else.
>  Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in Fedora 19?
>
>  Thanks for any pointers
>  Roger 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/

haven't used this myself, friends have and recommend it.

D




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[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 02:40:47PM +0100, Frédéric Bron wrote:
>  pdftk A=long.pdf cat A51-60 output short.pdf 
I use pdftk too; quite simple to use.  But for the sake of completeness
I should mention gs (Ghostscript); not so easy to use, but provides more
control.

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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Rami Rosen wrote:

>  Hi Roger,
>  This can be done with pdtk tool (which can be installed simply by: yum
>  -y install pdftk).
>
>  see:
>  http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442414-manipulating-pdfs-with-the-pd...
  yup, i use pdftk for this all the time.

rday

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[Rami Rosen]

Hi Roger,
This can be done with pdtk tool (which can be installed simply by: yum
-y install pdftk).

see:
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442414-manipulating-pdfs-with-the-pd...


Best Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen






On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Roger <arelem(a)bigpond.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello
>  I have several very lengthy pdf documents which I need to adjust.
>  I need to remove the first 30-50 pages of cruft and the last 5-20 pages and
>  several middle pages then save the altered document either as pdf or
>  something else.
>  Can this be done with convert or is there another suitable tool in Fedora
>  19?
>
>  Thanks for any pointers
>  Roger
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[Frédéric Bron]

pdftk A=long.pdf cat A51-60 output short.pdf

Frédéric