![]() ![]() If you have links in your PDF file, they may or may not be preserved in the manipulated PDF file. For example, on my "travel" laptop (where these tools are also installed), I had to get rid of things I never use, like Thunderbird and Bluetooth utilities (that particular laptop doesn't have Bluetooth capabilities, so they were completely unnecessary on that computer), or I'd have not had sufficient space to install the TexLive packages. You might want to avoid uninstalling programs that want to remove other seemingly unrelated programs/packages. Uninstalling programs you never use can help a lot, but be cognizant of what each program you want to remove will take with it. You might want to check to ensure you have adequate space in your root partition. The pdfjam package lists TexLive as one of its dependencies, and the TexLive package is quite large. Both of those packages are available in the PCLinuxOS repository, and installable via Synaptic. Instead, installation of pdftk and pdfjam will install most of these tools. Users won't have to install each and every one of them, one by one. The above image shows many of the command line PDF tools available on one of my computers. Many of the PDF tools available on one of my computers. But, you don't have to have intimate involvement with this magazine to find everyday uses for these tools, as you'll see in the examples that accompany the description of some of these tools. Because of my involvement with The PCLinuxOS Magazine for all of these years, these tools have become "good friends" who have earned their rightful place in my PDF tool chest. Your installation of PCLinuxOS does not come with all of these PDF tools already installed. These tools follow the do-one-job-and-do-it-well philosophy that is so common for so many Linux utilities. They are definitely the fastest way to manipulate PDF files, too. While I know that there are many users who avoid the command line like the proverbial plague, these command line tools are exceptionally easy to use. ![]() In this one, we'll look at using some of the many command line tools available for manipulating PDF files. This article represents what I plan to be the last article in the series. ![]() In the January 2023 issue, we talked about how to use various GUI tools to manipulate PDF files. Then, in the November 2022 issue, we talked about editing PDF files. In that article, we talked about creating PDF files. I began the series of articles about PDF files in the October 2022 issue. PDF Part 3B: Manipulating PDF Files, Command Line Style ![]()
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