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Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
@njoseph@social.masto.host  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

PDF Toolkit aka `pdftk` has been removed from the Debian repositories.

Today, I used an alternative GUI application called PDF Arranger to split, rotate and join some pages in a PDF from a scan.

Gnome's PDF viewer (evince) can do rotation by itself, but not the rest.

#PDF #Debian #Gnome #PDFTools

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avron
avron
@avron@piaille.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@njoseph I have been using PDF arranger for years, it is good. The most sophisticated PDF tool I know for viewing and making notes is okular. To change resolution, I use ghostscript in command line.

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Duck Marshall 🚲
Duck Marshall 🚲
@marshant@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@njoseph I used to use PDFTK regularly when I was a student, to split and concatenate class notes. Ah, nostalgia!

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Andres
@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@njoseph I usually use poppler-utils, which includes commands like "pdfunite" and "pdfseparate" to do that stuff from command line. Also handy to have pdftotext to grab some text out of a pdf (when cutting/pasting results in weird formatting and garbage). I don't think there's anything in poppler-utils to rotate, but I do that from GUIs.

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Greg Ar Tourter
Greg Ar Tourter
@artourter@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@njoseph @neil i use qpdf a lot as a command line tool. It does lack a couple of features pdftk use to have, e.g. the pdf repair facility, but i haven't had to use that in a while.

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