Although 99% of what I do with PDF files is to create them, I’m
occasionally called upon to manipulate them, whether to delete pages,
merge PDF documents, and stuff like that. On the Linux side, there
hasn’t been a free utility
to do that (or at least, I wasn’t aware of it, which is more likely).
It’s annoying not knowing about something like this, especially when
installing it was as simple as “sudo apt-get install pdftk” and it’s
loaded. Sheesh.

The only drawback I can see is that it is command line driven, but
that’s not that big a problem, especially with a tutorial
handy.

PDF Toolkit (pdftk for
short) allows you to do a variety of things. Oh, and it’s available for
Windows…so, if you don’t own the full version of Acrobat, then you
might consider downloading the Windows version. You can download
the Windows, Mac versions of pdftk online.

Thanks to this Newsforge
article for the tip!

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