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pdfjam


Information about the package, pdfjam, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pdfjam package is designed for, Utilities for joining, rotating and aligning PDFs.


Package Name:

pdfjam

Summary:

Utilities for joining, rotating and aligning PDFs

Description:

PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to some of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX. At present the utilities available are: * pdfnup, which allows PDF files to be "n-upped" in roughly the way that psnup does for PostScript files; * pdfjoin, which concatenates the pages of multiple PDF files together into a single file; * pdf90, which rotates the pages of one or more PDF files through 90 degrees (anti-clockwise). In every case, source files are left unchanged. A potential drawback of these utilities is that any hyperlinks in the source PDF are lost. On the positive side, there is no appreciable degradation of image quality in processing PDF files with these programs, unlike some other indirect methods such as "pdf2ps | psnup | ps2pdf" (in the author's experience).

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

2.08

Release:

1.el6

Size:

85 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPL+



Handy Yum Commands for pdfjam


Control the pdfjam package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install pdfjam

This command will install pdfjam on the server.

yum remove pdfjam

This command will un-install pdfjam on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pdfjam, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove pdfjam

This command will un-install pdfjam on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pdfjam when using the -y flag.

yum update pdfjam

This command will update pdfjam to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pdfjam, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update pdfjam

This command will update pdfjam to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pdfjam when using the -y flag.

yum info pdfjam

This command will show you core information about the pdfjam package.

yum deplist pdfjam

This command will show you the dependencies for pdfjam. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update pdfjam

This command will check if there is an update waiting on pdfjam. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.