On 14/05/17 06:38, ken wrote: > On 05/12/2017 03:39 AM, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote: >> Le 12/05/2017 à 02:46, ken a écrit : >>> It's worth mentioning that this is a really nice utility for >>> manipulating PDFs, taking them apart, rearranging them, putting >>> pages together, and a whole lot more. I've used it hundreds of >>> times. Probably anyone who has to work with PDFs would have need of it. >> >> In Centos 7, poppler-utils RPM has pdfdetach and pdfunite utilities >> which allow to manipulate pages in a pdf. > > That's great to know. Linux should have multiple ways to do one and > the same thing. In a free world we shouldn't be dependent on just one > solution. Indeed, pdfedit is another app for manipulating PDFs. > Having skimmed through the docs on these and others mentioned in this > thread, none of them can, in addition, rotate selected pages (i.e., > turn them by 90, 180, or 270 degrees), plus select pages by the > keywords "odd" and "even". The GIMP can be used to rotate PDFs, but > it's a PITA to do it there and it can't natively select and then so > manipulate multiple PDF pages programmatically. > > Rather than my repeated replying to this thread, docs on pdftk can be > found at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/. > > I have used pdftk for years and it met most of my needs - however when I moved to CentOS 7 as my work station it was not available. Looking at their web site they only mention CentOS 5 & 6 thus indicating that their support for linux has stalled or been removed and no development is happening. This has been the case for at least two years. Hence I have moved to the other tools that have been mentioned previously in this thread. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos