IT/Software/Command Line Applications/PDF Tools

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Here is a short list of the many many pdf tools in the Linux toolbox

pdftk has been around for ever.

Example: Rip out even or odd pages pages

pdftk name.pdf cat 1-endeven output even.pdf 

pdftk name.pdf cat 1-endodd output odd.pdf

Example: Join the odd and even documents into one.

pdftk odd-crop.pdf even-crop.pdf shuffle output nameMargins.pdf

pdfcrop

Example: Here we add a margin of 30 mm to the left

Order is left, bottom, right, top

pdfcrop --margins "30 0 0 0" odd.pdf 

pdfjam

Example: Create a pdf for printing with margins of 1 cm on left by pushing document to the right.

pdfjam --twoside 20.pdf --offset '1cm 0cm' --suffix 'offset'Example