Path: ...!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general Subject: Re: PDF editor needed, free and local software Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 21:55:22 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 01:55:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6ad21a7a44713b835af08a56cce1785d"; logging-data="16328"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/n8o49lxXhXTeAM5I9B/U3I8uN9vZJmMs=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jCzR0CyujlLscjSjDj9J/ujZNQM= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2830 Stan Brown wrote: > Howdy! I have a need to remove pages from some PDFs before I send > them to come companies. > > I have looked at "best free PDF editor sites", but all of them point > to various web sites. These documents are contain information like my > name, address, date of birth, and bank account numbers, so I really > don't want to upload them to some web site. > > Does anyone know of an free software that can edit PDF on a whole- > page basis, strictly on my local Windows 7 PC? My immediate need is > just to be able to remove individual pages, but it would be nice if > the software could split PDFS or append one to another as well. > > Thanks! > > If there's no software, Plan B is to print the pages I want to send > and make a new PDF from scratch. > > (I thought Irfanview could do this, but I tried updating to the > current version and it can't. It can create a PDF, but not edit one.) > https://www.mupdf.com/downloads/index.html https://www.mupdf.com/docs/manual-mutool-merge.html # Example: reverse a four page document mutool merge -o reverse.pdf in.pdf 4 in.pdf 3 in.pdf 2 in.pdf 1 # Example: knock out the middle two pages in a six page PDF mutool merge -o knock.pdf in.pdf 1-2,5-6 The result looks like this: https://i.postimg.cc/hGZ9DYsV/mutool-merge.gif There are (naturally) going to be documents which are better off edited in GUI-based tools. For example, if you have a document which mixes page sizes, I wouldn't expect such a simple-minded command line tool to pass the test. But if the pages are uniform in size with no rotation tricks, it's probably going to work. Paul