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pdfjam takes one or more PDF/JPG/PNG/etc files and produces one or more PDF files as output. It can be used to join files together, splitting files apart, resizing pages, etc

The pdfjam script takes one or more PDF files (and/or JPG/PNG graphics files) as input, and produces one or more PDF files as output. It is useful for joining files together, selecting pages, reducing several source pages onto one output page, etc.

Project homepage: https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam

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pdfjam: Merging multiple pdfs into one page without white space

which I want to get AB closer without space: ------ ------ ---------- ------------ | | | | | ———— | | —— —— | | A | | B | | |A|B| | | |A| |B| | | | | | …
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adding page numbers to the output of pdfjam

I'm using pdfjam to output 2x2 versions of a pdf file. Is there a way to add page numbers to the output of the reduced pdf. That is, if I had a 28page pdf, reduced it to 7 2x2 pages, the pages of the reduced file would be 1-7. Thanks!
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How to add footer to pdf with pdfjam or pdftk?

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…
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pushing down pdf resized with pdfjam

I'm using pdfjam to resize a PDF to 90% of it's original size by doing pdfjam --scale 0.9 old.pdf --outfile new.pdf. The "problem" is that this 90% sized PDF is in the middle of the PDF. Is there a way this 90% sized PDF could be pushed down? If…
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Recursively(many subdirs) find pdf files and merge into one pdf file (linux, bash)

Surprisingly I have seen many help pages on how to do this, from the same directory. Those that are recursively used don't seem to work for me (the tries below), or require complications I don't want to utilize as I don't understand them (even worse…
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