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[disciple]

No, it is not a replacement for pdfedit. As I said, it lets you combine pdfs, rearrange, delete, rotate and crop pages... but not edit the content of pages. I mentioned pdfedit because a lot of people use it when they should be using pdfshuffler, which is much faster and more reliable.

It sounds like you want gscan2pdf, which we were discussing here

AFAIK pdfedit is the only option for editing the content of pdf pages. There are .pet packages on the forum, but I haven't seen a recent one. There were a lot of major bugfixes early last year (I was using it in Cygwin), so I strongly recommend you run the latest version. You might like to try an old .pet before putting effort into building the latest version, to make sure it actually does what you need... although I guess you can probably find a recent build from some other distro that will work.

Can you post a link to this ImageScan program? If it is good, it would be trivial to combine its single page pdfs together...

Incidentally, Final Page (the competition for pdfshuffler) should be buildable in some of the newest Puppies.

[Frank Cox]

Imagescan works with Epson Printers, I am not sure if it works with others. This is the link fro the Epson version, they also have lots of printer drivers for Epson there.
it won't allow you to save in ps , only pdf and most image files.

It would be sweet if efax would send a format I can save in.

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[disciple]

There's a fork of Pdfshuffler some of you might be interested in; unfortunately it requires pygconf.
http://code.google.com/p/pdfsnip/

[disciple]

Aha!
I found an old debian package of pygconf that seems to work even with my gconf-dbus package.
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20090310T203154Z/pool/main/g/gnome-python/python-gconf_2.22.3-3_i386.deb
Just extract the gconf.so to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gconf.so

To install Pdfsnip extract it and run `python setup.py clean install`. It should now work.
The main advantage of Pdfsnip is that it has a zoom feature... but this is slow and seems unreliable
It might be better to add a feature to Pdfshuffler to enlarge just a single page (in a separate window or pane).

[musher0]

[disciple]

People might also be interested in a third tool along the same lines - PdfMod. Unfortunately this is a Gnome/Mono app.

[disciple]

Wow - I didn't realise how crowded the market was on Linux these days.

There is a fourth tool along the same lines called Pdfjumbler. This one is Java based, so it is easy to run on Windows as well, and you don't need to actually install it. I haven't tested extensively, but it looks quite good... possibly the best Java program I've seen.

You can use it to combine pdfs and rearrange and delete pages. No rotate or crop (there is a feature request for rotate; perhaps you would like to implement it )

I also see that pdfsam (also Java based) has greatly improved its UI for rearranging pages and stuff. My preferred tool is still pdfshuffler though.

[disciple]

Another interesting Java based tool - just for cropping:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/

[disciple]

Two things to note with the Java tools:

- I haven't tested them on Linux, but at least on Windows they seem to write the entire output file to memory before writing it to disk or something. And Java limits itself to a small amount of memory by default, so with a large PDF you can get an "out of heap space" error. To allow them to use memory you can start them like this:

[disciple]

[disciple]

[disciple]

Stapler - a Python alternative to Pdftk (which is java). i.e. a command line tool.

pyPdf-GUI - a PyGTK alternative to the Pdftk gui. Can add watermarks (although this can corrupt the page).

[headfound]

disciple - just wanted to say thank you for making and keeping alive such a useful thread! Cheers (wheres the +1 Like button?)