cutting, pasting, & merging pdf files in linux?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Alex Maynard wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there are tools (free or commercial) to merge, cut,
> paste, etc. pdf files?

commercial: Adobe's Acrobat suite. Not (yet) available on Linux.

free: don't know of any tools that will do this explicitly, but it 
shouldn't be too difficult to do this using PDF::API2 (appalling 
documentation notwithstanding).

If you're really stuck, I could probably write a small suite for you in 
an hour or two.

> (I usually create the pdf using dvipdfm from latex).

If you're using TeX, you could created PostScript files using dvips, 
then use Angus Duggan's pstools to hack the files about. Once you've got 
PS you like, you can create PDF using ps2pdf. But that might break your 
workflow if you're using dvipdfm graphics specials.

cheers,
  Stewart

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