[XeTeX] Copying some pages from one PDF to another

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Pander wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I used to use pdfjam to copy some pages from one PDF to another. Now
> that I am using xelatex, I really don't feel like installing pdfjam
> because of its dependancies, see:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install pdfjam
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  dvipdfmx latex-beamer latex-xcolor pgf prosper texlive-base
> texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-common texlive-doc-base
>  texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
> texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
> texlive-latex-recommended
>  texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc  
> tipa
> Suggested packages:
>  perl-tk
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  dvipdfmx latex-beamer latex-xcolor pdfjam pgf prosper texlive-base
> texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-common texlive-doc-base
>  texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
> texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
> texlive-latex-recommended
>  texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc  
> tipa
> 0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 109MB of archives.
> After this operation, 205MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
>
> What (open source) alternatives exist to create a new PDF from a
> selection of pages from another PDF(s).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pander

Howdy,

Try the pdfpages package.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)