gpdfx-ng - a graphical tool to extract parts of a PDF as a PDF

gpdfx-ng is a GTK application written in Python using the Poppler library to render the PDF. It uses pdfTeX and PDFCrop to create the extracted PDF.

Features

My improvements to the ancient gpdfx:

• Add a "Open" button (open file).
• Add a "Auto Fit" botton. It helps to fit the pdf file according to the size of the window.
• Add a button "Viewport". It copies the "viewport" of the selected area to the clipboard.
• Add a status bar.

Install

Dependency

• Python2 or Python3
• poppler-glib
• python-gobject
• gtk3
• python-cairo

The one line script install.sh helps to install (copy) gpdfx-ng to your PATH, in you want.

Usage

• Run gpdfx-ng and open a pdf file. You can also pass a file name the through command line argument.
• Select an area.
• Export the selection to a pdf file, or copy the "viewport" to the clipboard.

Viewport

If you want to insert the selected area of your pdf file in a LaTeX document, you may find the following codes useful.

  \begin{figure}[ht]
    \includegraphics[clip, page=1, viewport=1 2 3 4,
    width=1.0\textwidth, fbox]{paper.pdf}
  \end{figure}

Upstream

• https://github.com/lehner/gpdfx
• Author: Christoph Lehner (clehner // users.sourceforge.net)