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For example, to extract all but the first page from a pdf document:
$ pdftk input.pdf cat 2-end output output.pdfInput pdf documents can be named, as in the next example, as A,
B, etc., and then referred to when specifying page ranges later. The
example appends page 1 from document B (input2.pdf) to pages 1-8
of document A (input1.pdf). A use case is a contract where the
last page (page 9 here) needs to be signed and scanned. That page is
then appended to the remaining pages of the contract.
$ pdftk A=input1.pdf B=input2.pdf cat A1-8 B1 output output.pdfThe A and B can appear multiple times:
$ pdftk A=input1.pdf B=input2.pdf cat A1-8 B1 A10-12 output output.pdfYour donation will support ongoing availability and give you access to the PDF version of this book. Desktop Survival Guides include Data Science, GNU/Linux, and MLHub. Books available on Amazon include Data Mining with Rattle and Essentials of Data Science. Popular open source software includes rattle, wajig, and mlhub. Hosted by Togaware, a pioneer of free and open source software since 1984. Copyright © 1995-2022 Graham.Williams@togaware.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
