[PLUG] pdf tools?

[Tomas Kuchta]

Unless you have a lots of files to process - the easiest path is to open
your PDF in your favourite PDF viewer (evince/okular/xpdf/....) and print
desired pages to new PDF file.

-T

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 21:16 Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I remember someone (Rich?) mentioning a program called something like
> pdftools. I'm having trouble locating same on my Xubuntu system. I've
> found qpdf installed, and I found some instructions online for using it,
> but following the instructions did not produce the desired results. I
> have a long pdf from which I want to extract pages 6 and 7. Here's what
> I tried:
>
> rsteff at ENU-2:~/Desktop$ qpdf january-27-2020.pdf --pages
> january-27-2020.pdf 6-7 --Story.pdf
>
> qpdf: insufficient arguments to --pages
>
> Usage: qpdf [options] infile outfile
> For detailed help, run qpdf --help
>
> Am I trying to use the wrong tool? What is recommended?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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