Re: Can Caja be tweaked -- Goal is file management for elderly
On 2025-10-27, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.)
I was unaware of some of this. I was also unaware that pdftk had been
ported to Java and is now appearing as the pdftk-java package!
> 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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