top | item 45014464 (no title) mynameismon | 6 months ago For those who have an installation of LaTeX: It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this. discuss order hn newest diggan|6 months ago > It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this.Without looking it up the arguments/syntax, how do I do "join page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B"?If it's more than one CLI invocation, easy to remember/find in the shell history and less than 80 characters long, I'm not sure I'd call it easy :) fooofw|6 months ago pdfjam [1] uses a LaTeX package under the hood, is included with the TeX Live distribution and acts as a wrapper for a LaTeX package. With this, I believe your example would be: pdfjam PDF_A.pdf '2-3' PDF_B.pdf '7-23' --outfile joined.pdf I'll admit that I had to look it up but that only took about 3 minutes (it's an example in the readme).[1] https://github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam
diggan|6 months ago > It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this.Without looking it up the arguments/syntax, how do I do "join page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B"?If it's more than one CLI invocation, easy to remember/find in the shell history and less than 80 characters long, I'm not sure I'd call it easy :) fooofw|6 months ago pdfjam [1] uses a LaTeX package under the hood, is included with the TeX Live distribution and acts as a wrapper for a LaTeX package. With this, I believe your example would be: pdfjam PDF_A.pdf '2-3' PDF_B.pdf '7-23' --outfile joined.pdf I'll admit that I had to look it up but that only took about 3 minutes (it's an example in the readme).[1] https://github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam
fooofw|6 months ago pdfjam [1] uses a LaTeX package under the hood, is included with the TeX Live distribution and acts as a wrapper for a LaTeX package. With this, I believe your example would be: pdfjam PDF_A.pdf '2-3' PDF_B.pdf '7-23' --outfile joined.pdf I'll admit that I had to look it up but that only took about 3 minutes (it's an example in the readme).[1] https://github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam
diggan|6 months ago
Without looking it up the arguments/syntax, how do I do "join page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B"?
If it's more than one CLI invocation, easy to remember/find in the shell history and less than 80 characters long, I'm not sure I'd call it easy :)
fooofw|6 months ago
[1] https://github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam