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Splitting large PDF into small files
Using pdftk it is possible to extract page ranges from a pdf using
pdftk a.pdf cat 124-end output b.pdf dont_ask
I have a bunch of huge PDFs with about 500 pages and over 100 MB, is it possible to ...
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How can I convert a PNG to a PDF in high quality so it's not blurry or fuzzy?
There are a lot of questions out there about how to convert a PDF file to a PNG image, but I'm looking to take a nice sharp PNG file and just basically wrap it or embed it in a PDF file without having ...
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2answers
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pdf viewer for command line only
Is it possible to view pdf documents without having gdm (or similar) running?
Rationale: I'm working on a remote server (assume no X forwarding) processing some data, creating some plots (assume pdf ...
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1answer
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How to extract annotations from PDF files?
Is there a command-line tool to extract annotations (comments added using evince) from PDF-files?
I search such a solution to send people feedback on their submitted documents. Apart from replying ...
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How do I 'unbook' a pdf
I have a pdf file that was made into a booklet format. It is meant to print on A4 paper in landscape orientation; here are two pages in the pdf, which should correspond to four pages in the actual ...
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1answer
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Find links and their positions in a PDF
I need to find all links in a PDF file, along with the page they're on and their X/Y position. Is there any tool or combination of tools I can use to do that?
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Convert a folder of images into a multi-page pdf file usind command line tools?
I have a folder with 100 jpg images. I want to convert these images into a multi-page pdf file, with all the images (cropped to A4 size). They are already in the correct rotation.
Which tools should ...
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1answer
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SWF to PDF conversion
Are there any tools for converting SWF to PDF? I have a bunch of SWF files (to be ripped from the web) and I'd like to group them into single PDF.
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Split pages in pdf
I have a scanned pdf file which has scanned two pages on one virtual page (page in pdf file).
The resolution is with good quality. The problem is I have to zoom when reading and drag from left to the ...
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4answers
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pdf to jpg without quality loss; gscan2pdf
When I convert a pdf file to bunch of jpg files using
convert -quality 100 file.pdf page_%04d.jpg
I have appreciable quality loss.
However if I do the following, there is no (noticeable) quality ...
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Modifying PDF files
I need to do some basic editing on existing PDF file. I.e. I need to:
Add chapters/bookmarks
Change some page numbering
However I cannot find any tool - GUI or commandline - which would offer this ...
