How to split/join pdf files

Ghostscript is a very useful tool in this situation.
- Install
ghostscript
(thegs
command line).
sudo apt install -yq ghostscript
- To extract pages from the 3rd page to the 5th page in
in.pdf
, write output toout.pdf
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=5 -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf
By default -dFirstPage
is 1, -dLastPage
is the last page number.
- To combine 2 pdf files
in1.pdf
in2.pdf
, write output toout.pdf
.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=out.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf
