commit 9d9662bc97154af8980738100628345a7b52572d Author: Kenneth Odle Date: Tue Sep 7 18:50:40 2021 -0400 Initial commit (and probably last) diff --git a/Changing PDF Titles With pdftk – Quoi de neuf _.pdf b/Changing PDF Titles With pdftk – Quoi de neuf _.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e2036c Binary files /dev/null and b/Changing PDF Titles With pdftk – Quoi de neuf _.pdf differ diff --git a/pdftk basic usage b/pdftk basic usage new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ac9f60 --- /dev/null +++ b/pdftk basic usage @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +To merge (concatenate) pdfs: + +$ pdftk inputs cat output newfile.pdf + + +To merge all pdfs: + +$ pdftk *.pdf cat output newfile.pdf + + +To break a pdf into single page files: + +$ pdftk input.pdf burst + + +To combine parts of two or more files, use handles: + +$ pdftk A=firstfile.pdf B=secondfile.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output newfile.pdf + +======================================================================== + +To edit metadata is a multistep process: + +1) Dump the pdf metadata: + +$ pdftk input.pdf dump_data metadata.txt + +2) Edit the metadata (Geany appears to work), adding: + +InfoBegin +InfoKey: Author +InfoValue: Kenneth John Odle +InfoBegin +InfoKey: Title +InfoValue: Journal #42 + +(For "Title" enter whatever you want to see in the document's title bar as you read it.) + +3) Update the metadata in the pdf file: + +$ pdft input.pdf update_info metadata.txt output.pdf + +Note that you must write to another file, as pdftk cannot overwrite the original file. +Thus, make the file you save the scan as different than what you want the final file to be named. + +See https://sejh.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/changing-pdf-titles-with-pdftk/