How can I programmatically renumber pages in a PDF?
As a graduate student, I come across PDFs of articles and book chapters on a daily basis. Sometimes these PDFs are paginated correctly internally (that is, if an article starts on page 67, the PDF starts on page 67 as well; not on page 1). When they aren't, I have to open the file in Acrobat and renumber the pages in the "Page Thumbnails" panel.
I would love to be able to automate this whole process with a script (bash, Python, AppleScript, whatever) that lets me pass the first actual page number... something like fixpagination example.pdf 67. However, I cannot find any terminal-based program that can re-paginate PDFs. Neither pdftk nor PyPDF seem to be able to deal with pagination.
Are there any scriptable programs that can internally re-paginate PDF files?
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As a graduate student, I come across PDFs of articles and book chapters on a daily basis. Sometimes these PDFs are paginated correctly internally (that is, if an article starts on page 67, the PDF starts on page 67 as well; not on page 1). When they aren't, I have to open the file in Acrobat and renumber the pages in the "Page Thumbnails" panel.
I would love to be able to automate this whole process with a script (bash, Python, AppleScript, whatever) that lets me pass the first actual page number... something like fixpagination example.pdf 67. However, I cannot find any terminal-based program that can re-paginate PDFs. Neither pdftk nor PyPDF seem to be able to deal with pagination.
Are there any scriptable programs that can internally re-paginate PDF files?
macos pdf automation
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
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asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
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As a graduate student, I come across PDFs of articles and book chapters on a daily basis. Sometimes these PDFs are paginated correctly internally (that is, if an article starts on page 67, the PDF starts on page 67 as well; not on page 1). When they aren't, I have to open the file in Acrobat and renumber the pages in the "Page Thumbnails" panel.
I would love to be able to automate this whole process with a script (bash, Python, AppleScript, whatever) that lets me pass the first actual page number... something like fixpagination example.pdf 67. However, I cannot find any terminal-based program that can re-paginate PDFs. Neither pdftk nor PyPDF seem to be able to deal with pagination.
Are there any scriptable programs that can internally re-paginate PDF files?
macos pdf automation
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
Flame_Phoenix
2554714
asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
AndrewAndrew
94451628
As a graduate student, I come across PDFs of articles and book chapters on a daily basis. Sometimes these PDFs are paginated correctly internally (that is, if an article starts on page 67, the PDF starts on page 67 as well; not on page 1). When they aren't, I have to open the file in Acrobat and renumber the pages in the "Page Thumbnails" panel.
I would love to be able to automate this whole process with a script (bash, Python, AppleScript, whatever) that lets me pass the first actual page number... something like fixpagination example.pdf 67. However, I cannot find any terminal-based program that can re-paginate PDFs. Neither pdftk nor PyPDF seem to be able to deal with pagination.
Are there any scriptable programs that can internally re-paginate PDF files?
macos pdf automation
macos pdf automation
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
Flame_Phoenix
2554714
asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
AndrewAndrew
94451628
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
Flame_Phoenix
2554714
asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
AndrewAndrew
94451628
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
Flame_Phoenix
2554714
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
Flame_Phoenix
2554714
edited May 8 '13 at 2:52
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2554714
asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
AndrewAndrew
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asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
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asked May 8 '13 at 1:38
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Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
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There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py
In your case call:
./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf
./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --firstpagenum 67 file.pdf
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Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
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You might want to check out this Q&A.
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Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
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You might want to check out this Q&A.
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You might want to check out this Q&A.
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Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
add a comment |
Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Ooh. That looks promising. (And a little terrifying, editing the PDF directly like that.) I'll play around with this…
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 18:50
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
Hrm. It seems to be more complicated than it initially looks: stackoverflow.com/a/12925195/120898
– Andrew
May 8 '13 at 19:15
add a comment |
There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py
In your case call:
./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf
./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --firstpagenum 67 file.pdf
answered Jan 13 at 21:04
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There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py
In your case call:
./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf
./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --firstpagenum 67 file.pdf
answered Jan 13 at 21:04
DG'DG'
18114
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There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py
In your case call:
./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf
./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --firstpagenum 67 file.pdf
answered Jan 13 at 21:04
DG'DG'
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There is a little python script, that can do the job: https://github.com/lovasoa/pagelabels-py
In your case call:
./addpagelabels.py --delete file.pdf
./addpagelabels.py --startpage 1 --firstpagenum 67 file.pdf
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