How do we merge 2 pages in a pdf file on linux

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I have a pdf file of 10 pages , and I want to merge every two pages of it into a single page , like 1,2->1 : 3,4->2 : and so on ... I learnt about Ghostscript but these are the tools for compressing the .pdf , also there are utilities to merge two or more pdf s together into one,but I unfortunately could not find any to merge pages in the same pdf . Kindly help !

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '13 at 16:03

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You can do this with cpdf.

cpdf -twoup in.pdf -o out.pdf

answered Nov 27 '13 at 16:03

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Hey!..yeah this seems promising, but I am clueness on how to run this on Debian Linx , No makefile in their repo provided , also it's just not opening with Wine god know why !! – user3040487 Nov 28 '13 at 05:41
plus it's under "a special not-for-commercial-use license" (github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries/blob/master/LICENSE) -- for applications like this that are handled well by open source tools I don't see a point in investing in cpdf - not sure if it has an edge in some special use case though – ndemou Apr 25 '14 at 10:06

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '13 at 10:47

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Installing pdfjam adds a command called pdfjoin that can be used to join multiple PDF files into one. If your distribution doesn't come with pdfjam, you could also try pdftk.

answered Nov 27 '13 at 10:47

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`pdfjam` also includes `pdfnup`, which is probably more appropriate to the OP's question. `pdfjoin` is for joining multiple PDF files into a single file, not for reducing and combining pages... – twalberg Nov 27 '13 at 15:30
Exacty @twaberg , it's pdfnup that does that!..but essentially what is does is it just merges 2 pages into one,,and i am clueness on adjusting their ratios in that new page . As in, I want to stamp the Even page to the end of its previous page ! such that the stamped page only occupies a smaller chunk of the new formed page – user3040487 Nov 28 '13 at 05:40
As of 2023, `pdfnup` seems to have been rolled up into the `pdfjam` binary itself. Now it exists as the `--nup` argument to `pdfjam`. – cyqsimon Aug 23 '23 at 09:07

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 27 '13 at 13:50

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pdfunite is part of the poppler package

pdfunite 01.pdf 02.pdf 03.pdf out.pdf

answered Nov 27 '13 at 13:50

gino pilotino

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No!that is needed if one wants to combine 2 or more pdfs into a single pdf file . – user3040487 Nov 28 '13 at 05:40

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 06:02

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You can do this with pdftk

    pdftk test.pdf test1.pdf cat output output.pdf

answered Mar 18 '14 at 06:02

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How do we merge 2 pages in a pdf file on linux

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