https://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:cloisteredmonkey.jmark@slmail.me">Cloistered Monkey</a> <div id="license"xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" >This work is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer" style="display:inline-block;">CC BY 4.0 <img src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svg?ref=chooser-v1"> <img src="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1"></a> </div> Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:37:48 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/posts/pdf-pages/index.htmlCloistered Monkey<div id="table-of-contents" role="doc-toc"> <h2>Table of Contents</h2> <div id="text-table-of-contents" role="doc-toc"> <ul> <li><a href="https://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/posts/pdf-pages/index.html#orga058cb3">The Function Declaration</a></li> <li><a href="https://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/posts/pdf-pages/index.html#orgb444606">The Command Call</a></li> <li><a href="https://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/posts/pdf-pages/index.html#orge976464">Error Handling</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p> This is a function to make it easier to extract pages from a PDF using qpdf. </p> <div id="outline-container-orga058cb3" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="orga058cb3">The Function Declaration</h2> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orga058cb3"> <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">function</span> pdfpages --argument-names source_pdf target_pdf pages -d <span class="s2">"Extract pages from a pdf"</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> <div id="outline-container-orgb444606" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="orgb444606">The Command Call</h2> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgb444606"> <p> This uses qpdf (<a href="https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf">GitHub Repsitory</a>) to extract pages from a PDF. It's a function not an abbreviation because you intersperse your arguments within their syntax, rather than just pasting it all after the call. </p> <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>qpdf --empty --pages <span class="nv">$source_pdf</span> <span class="nv">$pages</span> -- <span class="nv">$target_pdf</span> </pre></div> </div> </div> <div id="outline-container-orge976464" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="orge976464">Error Handling</h2> <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orge976464"> <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">if</span> <span class="k">test</span> <span class="nv">$status</span> -ne 0 <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">"source_pdf = </span><span class="nv">$source_pdf</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">"target_pdf = </span><span class="nv">$target_pdf</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">"pages = </span><span class="nv">$pages</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="k">end</span> </pre></div> </div> </div>functionspdfhttps://necromuralist.github.io/Give-The-Fish/posts/pdf-pages/index.htmlSun, 30 Aug 2026 23:44:56 GMT