How to add footer to pdf with pdfjam or pdftk?

Question

I am using a shell script to modify many pdfs and would like to create a script that adds the page number (1 of X format) to the bottom of PDFs in a directory along with the text of the filename.

I tried using pdfjam with this format:

pdfjam --pagenumbering true

but it fails saying undefine pagenumbering

Any other recommendations how to do this? I am OK installing other tools but would like this to all be within a shell script.

Thank you

Out of curiosity, what led you to "pagenumbering"? – notautogenerated Jul 20 '20 at 12:13 — notautogenerated, Jul 20 '20 at 12:13
https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfjam-slides3up – AAA Jul 20 '20 at 17:22 — AAA, Jul 20 '20 at 17:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 12:11

tl;dr: pdfjam --pagecommand '' input.pdf

By default, pdfjam adds the following LaTeX command to every page: \thispagestyle{empty}. By changing the command to an empty command, the default plain page style is used, which consists of a page number at the bottom. Of course you may want to play with other styles or layout options to position the page number differently.

How to add footer to pdf with pdfjam or pdftk?

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