Re: How to manipulate PDF documents in Debian?
On 2025-07-20, Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > How about
>> >
>> > mutool merge -o Page-n.pdf <100-page.pdf> n
>> >
>> > where <100-page.pdf> is the original file
>> > Page-n.pdf is the one page file extracted
>> >
>> > See man mutool. Roger
>>
>> pdftk can do what you want, and more.
> Try "pdfarranger", it is in the debian repo.
> Should work for your needs. Also "pdfsam" might also be able to do it,
> however, personally I think, pdfarranger is more comfortable.
There appear to be a confusing amount of tools. I have poppler-utils
(which contains pdfseparate) as well as pdftk (which can extract single
pages or a range of pages and maybe even two non-contiguous pages from a
pdf file).
I used to use pdfjoin to join pdfs (though there was a bug where some
pages would be oriented wrongly) and I needed to join some pdfs
recently. But there were so many dependencies for pdfjoin that I decided
to try pdfunite (that somebody had recently mentioned here), which I
already had installed. It worked perfectly.
For editing PDFs, I've only used libreoffice --draw and the Gimp. It's a
PITA.
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