Not related to inkscape, but here are the methods I've figured out to merge and cut up PDF documents with Linux: 1. I've had good luck merging PDF documents together with the pdftk utility, you can pick and place specific pages, rotate, and do all sorts of other transformations. ie: pdftk A=file1.pdf B=file2.pdf C=file3.pdf cat A B1-5 C1R output output.pdf 2. For splitting a PDF into sub-pages, I've had good luck with using ghostscript to do that sort of editing. For example, if I want to split a standard letter size page into two PDFs, I can do something like this: gs -o "top_half.pdf" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -g6120x3960 -c "<</PageOffset [0 -400]>> setpagedevice" -f "input.pdf" gs -o "bottom_half.pdf" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -g6120x3960 -c "<</PageOffset [0 0]>> setpagedevice" -f "input.pdf" To find the dimensions of your page, you can run this command, which uses the pdf_info.ps file from the ghostscript source code: gs -dNODISPLAY -q -sFile=input.pdf -dDumpMediaSizes -dDumpFontsUsed -dShowEmbeddedFonts pdf_info.ps Look for a line similar to this one: Page 1 MediaBox: [ 612 792 ] Then you have to multiply these numbers by 10 to match the units used by ghostscript. Hope this helps, Matthew Beckler On 03/01/2011 07:02 AM, donn wrote:

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 13:02, donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote: Have a look at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tools#Multipage_presentation_or_book Ward

donn wrote the following on 3/1/2011 7:02 AM: I was thinking something along the lines of command line parameters, such as: inkscape --export-pdf=logo1.pdf --export-id=logo1 --export-id-only --export-text-to-path logos.svg ...where inside of logos.svg is a logo with various shapes all place into a single group with the ID logo1. So if you had 10 logos inside of a master document, you could assign group IDs to each one (calling them logo1, logo2, logo3, etc.) You would export each logo to a separate pdf and then use something pdf-fy to drill them all into a multi-page pdf file. Of course a script does this all for you. However, the above command doesn't work with pdf (or eps or ps). I fail! :) Although, I can get it to work with png (I know it's not what you want). Perhaps I'm close. heathenx PS. Attached is the logos.svg file that I was playing with. # png example (single logo example) inkscape --export-png=logo1.png --export-id=logo1 --export-dpi=300 logos.svg convert *.png output.pdf

On 02/03/11 08:17, donn wrote: Hi Donn: You could try hiding all the elements you don't want on one page and then export to pdf without selecting an id. This method seemed to work ok for me, when I used it for the JessyInk export. The export script works on layers, but since they are really just groups, you should be able to quite easily modify it for your needs. Cheers, Hannes

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:02:01 +0200 donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote: Have you looked at the output from inkscape --help? --export-pdf=FILENAME combined with --export-id=ID --export-id-only might do what you want, if the ID is the ID of a layer. Cheers -Terry

There is a new tool which exports multiple page PDF documents from Inkscape. You simply define rectangles in Inkscape with a certain ID where you want the pages to be. It is designed for sewing patterns but would work for anything. http://www.titchythreads.com/tools/inkscape_pdf_generator (Disclaimer: I am the developer). -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:11:11 +0100 Mark T T <mark@...3065...> wrote: Is it just me, or is this post in bad taste and very close to being spam? This person gets on the Inkscape list and makes one post in the last two years. That post is for Windows-only, proprietary, commercial software. I understand the fact that it's very hard to sell commercial software these days unless it's a phone app, and appreciate that the poster has few options that don't cost considerable money and probably not hit his target audience. I understand that the days of Philippe Kahn making a compiler in his garage and making a million dollars are gone. The poster has my sympathy. But personally, and your mileage may vary, I just don't think it's appropriate to post a Windows-only proprietary software on a free software mailing list. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

For this kind of things there is posterazor: http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/ Does exactly the same thing. The only thing missing is the integration with inkscape. My wife use it all the time exactly for sewing patterns and it works great. You export your page from inkscape and put it through posterazor and voilla. You have your sewing pattern. I too don't have a problem with being commercial, but I do have a problem with it not being free software and being limited to Windows. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

@Mark T T In the web page you are suggesting that the tool is perfect for sewing patterns, for which you can use posterazor and inkscape without any problems. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.