Alternative to kpdftool

[crazy ivan]

In my studies I often need to merge, cut and extract PDF files. Kpdtool used to be a really cool app to do this in my SUSE times. But development on it seems to have come to a premature end and there are no packages for ubuntu. Are there any GUI driven alternatives somewhere to be found - preferably GNOME?
I know there is this comandline tool "pdftk", but I don't use it as much that I could memorize the syntax.. At the moment I just print pages to PDF when I want to extract something. With merging I'm helpless.

[crazy ivan]

Nice thing would also be rotating pages by 90°

[DrHu]

In my studies I often need to merge, cut and extract PDF files. Kpdtool used to be a really cool app to do this in my SUSE times. But development on it seems to have come to a premature end and there are no packages for ubuntu.

You can/can't use kde applications in Gnome/Ubuntu ? Why not keep using kpdftool
--I thought they had fixed their integration issues

There is also something like scribus (a dtp package), but not for working directly on a pdf file (but able to open it), you could cut & paste from the data once it was opened and save the results to a new page, then create that as a pdf
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?la...iform/pdf_form
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000225
http://www.scribus.net/

And there is also something
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf
--creating a pdf file from scans

[crazy ivan]

Thanks for the good links DrHu.. With scribus one could do the stuff on PS/EPS but they can't import PDF yet.
For me I came to a simple and very effective solution for merging PDFs:
1) get the wonderfull rpm > deb converter alien

 sudo apt-get install alien

2) get the "kpdftool-0.22-10.1.i586.rpm" for Opensuse 10.1 from rpmseek.com
3) do the conversion

 sudo alien kpdftool-0.22-10.1.i586.rpm

or more secure

 fakeroot alien kpdftool-0.22-10.1.i586.rpm

4) install

 sudo gdebi kpdftool-0.22-10.1.i586.rpm

5) execute (not listed in menu) an enjoy

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