[OT] two really neat pdf tools
Peter Alcibiades
palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Aug 14 14:10:27 EDT 2011
Don't know if anyone needs these things, but if you do, they are really
neat. One is unoconv. That will take all the .doc files in a directory
and with the aid of open office or libreoffice will turn them into
perfectly decent pdfs. As in:-
unconv -f pdf *.doc
Then the other really neat one is pdfshuffler. This is a gnome gui
package, and what you do is import the pdfs into it and then export them
again, and you have combined all your pdfs into one file. You can do other
stuff with this, but I didn't bother to figure out the rest only needing to
combine them.
So basically, you start out with 50 .doc files and you zip them up into one
pdf in about 30 seconds. Wonderful!
Peter
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