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Convenient if you are on a machine where you can’t install software. (Corporate computer, school computer, library computer etc.)

For Linux and macOS computers that you are allowed to install software on I recommend the pdftk command line tool.

Ubuntu family:

  sudo apt install pdftk
macOS with Homebrew:

  brew install pdftk-java


> For Linux and macOS computers that you are allowed to install software on I recommend the pdftk command line tool.

If you're on a Mac, the built in Preview tool has had the ability to merge and manipulate PDF documents for years.


Yea, true. But pdftk is really handy if you are assembling very many pages. And it can also help you do stuff involving all odd-numbered pages or all even-numbered pages for example. So pdftk goes quite a far beyond what you can do with Preview.




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