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rotate pages by 180 degrees
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-endsouth output out.pdf
Ref:- https://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/blog/rotating-one-or-more-pages-in-a-pdf-in-linux - where I found the above solution.
store a pdf without password
tags | remove password pdf
qpdf --password=YOURPASSWORD --decrypt input.pdf output.pdf
If the password has some special characters, quote it.
qpdf --password="YOURPASSWORD" --decrypt input.pdf output.pdf
pdftk secured.pdf input_pw YOURPASSWORD output unsecured.pdf
Note:- If possible switch to using qpdf instead of pdftk. There were couple of instances where the pdftk command failed and qpdf succeeded.
Ref:- https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/removing-password-from-pdf-on-linux/ - Mentions qpdf; gives more alternatives.
make two copies of the same document
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-end 1-end output out.pdf
See also: https://superuser.com/questions/600877/how-do-i-duplicate-pages-within-pdf-files-automatically - has a script to duplicate it by page (as in 1,1,2,2,…)
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