diff --git a/pages/common/qpdf.md b/pages/common/qpdf.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..244017509 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/qpdf.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# qpdf + +> Versatile PDF transformation software. + +- Extract pages 1-3, 5 and 6-10 from a PDF file and save them as another one: + +`qpdf --empty --pages {{input.pdf}} {{1-3,5,6-10}} -- {{output.pdf}}` + +- Merge (concatenate) a list of PDF files and save the result as another one: + +`qpdf --empty --pages {{file1.pdf}} {{1,6-8}} --pages {{file2.pdf}} {{3,4,5}} -- {{output.pdf}}` + +- Write each group of n pages to a separate output file with a given filename pattern: + +`qpdf --split-pages=n {{input.pdf}} {{out_%d.pdf}}` + +- Rotate certain pages of a pdf with a given angle: + +`qpdf --rotate={{90:2,4,6}} --rotate={{180:7-8}} {{input.pdf}} {{output.pdf}}` + +- Remove the password from a password protected file: + +`qpdf --password={{password}} --decrypt {{input.pdf}} {{output.pdf}}`