Re: Editing PDFs

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

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