Re: Editing PDFs

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I had to read the *pdf included. I got qpdf to strip pp 1 to 5 and
keep the rest.
Its also in ./pkgsrc . Thanks again.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:38 PM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Thanks! This doc is  about 590pp long.
> We will see if this helps...
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:06 PM J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/04, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > Is there a nice way to edit a PDF, and delete the blank page(s) at
> > > the beginning of the document?
> >
> > QPDF
> >
> >   https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
> >
> > is a command-line program that can delete pages.  The way you delete
> > pages is by extracting pages from the original PDF to create a new PDF
> > with the pages you want to delete omitted.  For example, to delete pages
> > 1-9 and 13 from a 14-page PDF named in.pdf:
> >
> > $ qpdf in.pdf out.pdf --pages in.pdf 10-12,14 --
> >
> > Here are some other command-line programs that can delete pages that I
> > think are probably good but that I've never actually used myself:
> >
> > * PDFtk Server
> >
> >     https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/
> >
> > * pdfjam
> >
> >     https://github.com/rrthomas/pdfjam
> >
> > Lewis