Re: Manipulating pdf pages

From	Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Manipulating pdf pages
Date	2016-03-10 15:50 +0100
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Renaud OLGIATI [2016-03-10 11:03:21-03] wrote:

> I have the .pdf scan of an old book, with some pages leaning at an
> angle.
>
> Is there in Debian a program that would let me rectify the offending
> pages one by one, but, avoiding the hassle of turning the .pdf in
> individual .jpg, modifying the jpg and turning back into .pdf ?

Pdfjam has options like --angle, --trim and --scale. First maybe fix
some pages:

    pdfjam -o fixed.pdf --angle 2 old_book.pdf 10-15

Then construct a new book:

    pdfjam -o ready.pdf old_book.pdf 1-9 fixed.pdf - old_book.pdf 16-

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