[PLUG] pdf tools?

[Robert Citek]

+1 for Thomas.  Usually for those one-offs, a GUI pdf tool will do the
trick just fine.

As for qpdf, either of these should work:

$ qpdf january-27-2020.pdf --pages . 6-7 -- Story.pdf
$ qpdf --empty --pages january-27-2020.pdf 6-7 -- Story.pdf

A simpler and less feature-rich tool is the poppler-utils package.

$ dpkg -s poppler-utils | sed -ne '/^Description:/,/Homepage:/p'
Description: PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
 Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on Xpdf PDF viewer.
 .
 This package contains command line utilities (based on Poppler) for getting
 information of PDF documents, convert them to other formats, or manipulate
 them:
  * pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
  * pdffonts -- font analyzer
  * pdfimages -- image extractor
  * pdfinfo -- document information
  * pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
  * pdfsig -- verifies digital signatures
  * pdftocairo -- PDF to PNG/JPEG/PDF/PS/EPS/SVG converter using Cairo
  * pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
  * pdftoppm -- PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
  * pdftops -- PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
  * pdftotext -- text extraction
  * pdfunite -- document merging tool
Homepage: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

In your case, this should work:

$ pdfseparate -f 6 -l 7 january-27-2020.pdf Story.pdf

Good luck.  And let us know what you tried and what works for you.

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 6:30 PM Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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