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• Stamp a text line on top of the pdf pages.

  To quickly add some remark, comment, stamp text, ... on top of (each of) the pages of the input pdf file.

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  echo "This text gets stamped on the top of the pdf pages." | enscript -B -f Courier-Bold16 -o- | ps2pdf - | pdftk input.pdf stamp - output output.pdf
  svg · 2012-01-03 14:58:10 1
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• Adequately order the page numbers to print a booklet

  Useful if you don't have at hand the ability to automatically create a booklet, but still want to. F is the number of pages to print. It *must* be a multiple of 4; append extra blank pages if needed. In evince, these are the steps to print it, adapted from https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/duplex-npage.html.en : 1) Click File ▸ Print. 2) Choose the General tab. Under Range, choose Pages. Type the numbers of the pages in this order (this is what this one-liner does for you): n, 1, 2, n-1, n-2, 3, 4, n-3, n-4, 5, 6, n-5, n-6, 7, 8, n-7, n-8, 9, 10, n-9, n-10, 11, 12, n-11... ...until you have typed n-number of pages. 3) Choose the Page Setup tab. - Assuming a duplex printer: Under Layout, in the Two-side menu, select Short Edge (Flip). - If you can only print on one side, you have to print twice, one for the odd pages and one for the even pages. In the Pages per side option, select 2. In the Page ordering menu, select Left to right. 4) Click Print. Show Sample Output

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  136,1,2,135,134,3,4,133,132,5,6,131,130,7,8,129,128,9,10,127,126,11,12,125,124,13,14,123,122,15,16,121,120,17,18,119,118,19,20,117,116,21,22,115,114,23,24,113,112,25,26,111,110,27,28,109,108,29,30,107,106,31,32,105,104,33,34,103,102,35,36,101,100,37,38,99,98,39,40,97,96,41,42,95,94,43,44,93,92,45,46,91,90,47,48,89,88,49,50,87,86,51,52,85,84,53,54,83,82,55,56,81,80,57,58,79,78,59,60,77,76,61,62,75,74,63,64,73,72,65,66,71,70,67,68,69

  
  

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  F=136; [[ $(($F % 4)) == 0 ]] && for i in $(seq 1 $(($F/4))); do echo -n $(($F-2*($i-1))),$((2*$i-1)),$((2*$i)),$(($F-2*$i+1)),; done | sed 's/,$/\n/' || echo "Make F a multiple of 4."
  Kayvlim · 2014-06-11 01:21:08 0
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• Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

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  find . -name \*.pdf -exec pdfinfo {} \; | grep Pages | sed -e "s/Pages:\s*//g" | awk '{ sum += $1;} END { print sum; }'
  unixmonkey3987 · 2009-08-10 16:28:24 0
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• Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

  This sums up the page count of multiple pdf files without the useless use of grep and sed which other commandlinefus use. Show Sample Output

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  find -iname "*.pdf" -exec pdfinfo -meta {} \;|awk '{if($1=="Pages:"){s+=$2}}END{print s}'
  Barabbas · 2011-12-13 15:02:11 0
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This is a bit shorter, only using awk: numpages() { awk 'END{print int(NR/60)}' "$@"; } awk reads through the file, then has an END condition to print NR (number of records (lines)). It's tempting to add a "+1" to the end, though. If the files are less than 60 lines in total, both our commands print: 0 !

flatcap · 381 weeks ago

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