Re: Can Caja be tweaked -- Goal is file management for elderly
On Sat 25 Oct 2025 at 15:34:07 (-0000), Bigsy Bohr¹ wrote:
> On 2025-10-25, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> >>
> >> Side Question:
> >> Suggested tool to extract and save a page of a PDF document?
> >
> > atril?
> >
> > Open the file, go to the wanted page. Select Print, choose print to
> > file, choose file name, select current page only option, press print.
> >
>
> That's a way, but if you're dealing with a compendious volume from which
> you would like to extract page 4, 7, 12, and 438 it can get tedious. In
> fact, I'm uncertain if pdfseparate can do this job; it seems you can only
> select a consecutive series of pages to extract (-f 1 -l 4). I know
> pdftk is capable of it, though.
Yes, pdktk can make this task extremely simple, as in
pdftk A=source.pdf cat A4 A7 A12-18even A438 output my-selection.pdf
(I added the "-18even" to include 14, 16 and 18, as an illustration
of ranges, which can be reversed, and qualifiers, which can include
90/180° rotations.)
You can also merge pages from multiple source PDFs: I use this each
year in preparing tax stuff:
pdftk A=qtrly-20250331.pdf B=qtrly-20250630.pdf \
C=qtrly-20250930.pdf D=qtrly-20251231.pdf \
cat D1-2 C1-2 B1-2 A1-2 output consolidated-2025.pdf
Cheers,
David.
¹ BTW Bigsy, you received my previous reply because I Cc'd you.
The list's domain had been silently dropping my posts since
some time in late August.
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