Category Archives: Linux

PDF manipulation and editing via the command line with pdftk

By Paul Syrysko | Published: November 16, 2010
document-pile

We recently had a small job to chop and reassemble a dozen or so pdfs and then include them into a website archive. Our client needed all the first pages exchanged with new first pages that had new information on them. A laborious task manually, but PDF Toolkit came to our rescue. It’s a cross [...]

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Print large pdfs over multiple pages easily in Linux with pdfposter

By Paul Syrysko | Published: March 25, 2010
pdfposter-eng-drawing

Engineering and architectural drawings come in colossal sizes and most design offices have large plotters or roll printers to let them push out paper copies with ease. We have a printer that will take A3 rolls but since use is fairly sparse, I needed a way to expand a strangely sized pdf across multiple A3 [...]

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