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pdfrearrange

Developed by SANFACE Software ©
Version 1.0 15th November 2002

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What is pdfrearrange?

pdfrearrange is a very flexible and powerful program.
pdfrearrange allows you to reorder the pages inside existing pdfs. It's simple to use it like a batch application to reorder the pages of every PDF in your archive.
It's simple to use it inside your cgis.
PDFrearrange is a powerful tool for PDF prepress use, the output PDF have the same information like the input file. You can manage big prepress pdf file rearranging pages, removing or duplicating selected pages.
We distribute only executable versions (if you need ask us the original PERL code, we'll evaluate your request).

Prepress tests

We have tested PDFrearrange for prepress use and we can confirm that PDFrearrange support and preserve:

Getting pdfrearrange, Licence and Registration

pdfrearrange is a Perl tool.
We distribute only 6 executable versions:

You can freely redistribute pdfrearrange tool in its unregistered archive format (zip or tar.gz)
You can ask us other UNIX executables (Linux like Slackware and Caldera, Linux on mips, OSF/1, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, OpenBSD, IRIX) or the original Perl code (we'll evaluate your request).
In the case we'll decide to send you the original perl code:
You can't modify directly it.
You can't resell pdfrearrange or a modify version of it without SANFACE Software authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source without SANFACE Software authorization.

We trust you.

The pdfrearrange Windows version
The pdfrearrange AIX version
The pdfrearrange HP-UX version
The pdfrearrange Linux version
The pdfrearrange Solaris version
The pdfrearrange Mac OS X version

The registration fee is

every server installation.

DescriptionPayment Options
Register NOW pdfrearrange 1.x via a SECURE SERVER at www.RegSoft.COM Credit Card, FAX Ordering, Postal Mail, Phone, Purchase Order

If you're a developer or a software house and you're interested to use pdfrearrange inside your tools these're our standard economical policies (the unit price will be completely different if your application is a client application). In every case we suggest you to contact directly us. We're a small company and we're interested to find economical agreements and partnerships.

Volume Discount

4-10$800 each (no CPU server difference)
11 or more$650 each (no CPU server difference)

Reseller Discount

Contact directly us! We're looking for resellers and partnerships.

No limit license

You've one or more products with a lot of installations and you want to put pdfrearrange inside every your tool. This is the licence you're looking for.
Its costs: $50000 + 20 % every year. Obviously you'll receive every update freely.

Installing pdfrearrange
  1. Create a new directory (e.g. pdfrearrange)
  2. We distribute pdfrearrange in 2 formats: .zip and .tar.gz
    With the file .zip you can use a lot of tools to unzip it and put all the files inside the new directory you've created
    With .tar.gz on Windows you can use Winzip, on unix you can use gunzip + tar commands or directly GNU tar with option z (e.g. tar zxvf pdfrearrangea.tar.gz)
  3. test if the executable version works correctly:
    ./pdfrearrange -h (on Windows .\pdfrearrange -h)
    The result is simply a minimal help
  4. reorder your first PDF on the fly:
    ./pdfrearrange -t infile.pdf -o outfile.pdf -t order.txt
    (on Windows .\pdfrearrange -t infile.pdf -o outfile.pdf -t order.txt)
Syntax

pdfrearrange [-options ...]
where options include:
-template "infile.pdf" the template file
-output "outfile.pdf" the output file
-pageorder "order.txt" the new order of pages

You can use the abbreviations "-t", "-o" and "-p".
example:
pdfrearrange -t infile.pdf -o outfile.pdf -t order.txti

Very important is the syntax you can use inside the template file. See an example inside order.txt inside your distribution.

  1. If a line starts with # this line is a comment.
  2. On the same line you can put a sequence of pages
    e.g. 1, 3, 5 or 1 3 5
    or you can put only one page
    e.g. you can write the same example like
    1
    3
    5
  3. If you want to describe a range of pages you can use this syntax:
    first_page_range-last_page_range
    e.g. 15-45
  4. On the same line you can put a sequence of pages and one or more ranges using , separator
    e.g. 1, 5, 10 , 20-50, 60-100
  5. Pages that do not exist are silently ignored
  6. You can repeat the same page e.g. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
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