Date Tags cli / pdf

Tools

  • Pdftk a general command line tool box
  • PDFjam a set of shell script using the pdfpages LaTeX package for pdf processing

Command examples

Combines different pdf in one (Pdftk)

Fixed list the order of input file is important, combine 1.pdf, 2.pdf and 3.pdf in 123.pdf

$ pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf cat output 123.pdf

All the pdf of the directory by alphabetic order in all.pdf file:

$ pdftk *.pdf cat output all.pdf

Puts several page on one sheet (PDFjam)

Two page per sheet on top of each other

$ pdfnup --nup 1x2 input.pdf

Two page per sheet on side by side

$ pdfnup --nup 2x1 input.pdf