Make Tech Easier» split http://maketecheasier.com Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier Fri, 25 May 2012 23:58:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Split And Merge PDF Files With PDF-Shuffler [Linux] http://maketecheasier.com/split-merge-pdf-files-with-pdf-shuffler/2011/01/18 http://maketecheasier.com/split-merge-pdf-files-with-pdf-shuffler/2011/01/18#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:58:19 +0000 Damien http://maketecheasier.com/?p=27761
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]]> pdfshuffler-splitIf you have two or more Words documents, you can easily open them in any Office suite and cut/paste the content to split or merge them. What about PDF files? If you have several PDF files that you want to merge together, how can you do it with the same ease? In Linux, PDF-Shuffler is the answer.

PDF-Shuffler is the frontend interface for pyPdf. pyPdf is a PDF toolkit built with pure-python library. It is capable of extracting document information, splitting and merging documents, cropping pages, encrypting and decrypting PDF files. PDF-Shuffler merely make use of the splitting and merging functionality of pyPdf and turn itself into an easy to use and useful application.

In Debian-based distro, you can install it via:

sudo apt-get install pdfshuffler

In Ubuntu, you have the extra option of installing it via the Ubuntu Software Center. Alternatively, you can grab the deb file from Sourceforge and install it in your system.

Usage

The usage is easy. Open PDF-Shuffler. Click the “Import pdf” button to load your PDF file(s).

pdfshuffler-import

Once you have loaded the PDF file, you can drag the individual pages to arrange them or to highlight any pages and press the “Delete page(s)” button to delete them from the file. You can also import in other PDF files that you want to merge with the current document.

pdfshuffler-drag-to-rearrange

When you are done with your editing, you just have to click the “Export pdf” button to save your work. That’s it. Didn’t I say it is easy to use?

A point to note

While using the “export” function, I have difficulty getting it to work. The window just stand still and not doing anything. it took me several attempts to finally save my work. A quick research shows that there is some issue with the pyPdf export functionality, but apparently, very few people have this issue, so it could just be me.

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]]> In Ubuntu, the Archive Manager (or file-roller) has make it easy for anyone to compress and zip up a file or folder, but if you have a large file, say 20Gb, and you want to back it up to the CD/DVD, you will find that no amount of compression can you reduce the file size to fit into 1 CD/DVD. In such case, it is a better solution to compress and split the large file into several smaller files and store them separately. This also applies if you want to share a large file on a file-sharing site. Splitting the compressed file into several smaller files will make it easier for others to download.

Let’s say that the large file is a movie file found in /home/username/movie/large-file.avi and you want to compress, split and store the smaller files at the folder /home/username/movie/split-flies/, this is what you type in the terminal:

cd movie/split-files (change the filepath to where you want to keep the split files)
tar -cvj /home/username/movie/large-files.avi | split -b 650m -d – “large-files.tar.bz.”

You will now see several files appearing at the split-files folder, each with file size of 650MB and with filenames large-files.tar.bz.00, large-files.tar.bz.01, large-files.tar.bz.02, etc.

To recover and extract the split files, type

cat large-files.tar.bz.* > large-files.tar.bz
tar -xvj large-file.tar.bz

and you can get the original file back.

Do you know of any other ways to compress and split files in Ubuntu?


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