what in fedora rawhide replaces "pdftk" for extracting pages from PDF file?

Jack Peirce JPeirce at sourcecode.com
Tue Apr 22 19:35:46 UTC 2014


On 04/22/2014 02:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Guy Streeter wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/22/2014 12:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   since i just noticed that pdftk is obsoleted in fedora rawhide, what
>>>> new package can i use to do nothing more than extract a single
>>>> sequence of pages from a PDF file? thanks.
>>>>
>>>> rday
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is poppler-utils in rawhide? It has pdfseparate.
>>
>>   ah, that's it, then, thanks.
>
>   wait, hang on, that will extract every single page into its own PDF
> file -- can i not ask for a range of pages to be extracted into a
> single file? is there an option i'm overlooking?
>
> rday
>

The man page says it has options to specify the first and last page to be
extracted.
--Guy

Yes but each single page has it's own output file. 

If you specify -f 1 -l 10 it will create 10 different PDF files, 1 page each.


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