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  • Re: how to delete attachments in PDFs

    From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to Jerome BENOIT on Tue Jun 17 20:00:01 2025
    On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    Hello,

    I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
    is there a simple way to delete them ?

    re-generate the PDF without the embedded files.


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  • From Jerome BENOIT@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 17 19:50:01 2025
    Hello,

    I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
    is there a simple way to delete them ?

    Thanks in advance,
    Jerome

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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to Jerome BENOIT on Tue Jun 17 20:30:01 2025
    On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.

    I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.

    Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in
    that sense (ignoring Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's called).

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Jerome BENOIT on Tue Jun 17 21:10:01 2025
    Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.

    I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.


    The poppler-utils package contains:

    * pdfdetach -- lists or extracts embedded files (attachments)
    * pdfseparate -- page extraction tool
    * pdfunite -- document merging tool

    Which together may or may not do what you want.

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  • From Jerome BENOIT@21:1/5 to Dan Purgert on Tue Jun 17 20:20:01 2025
    Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.

    I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.

    On 17/06/2025 19:59, Dan Purgert wrote:
    On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    Hello,

    I have a PDF file with undesirable attachments:
    is there a simple way to delete them ?

    re-generate the PDF without the embedded files.

    Cheers,
    Jerome




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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Dan Purgert on Tue Jun 17 20:50:01 2025
    On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 02:21:04PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
    On Jun 17, 2025, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
    Hi Dan, thanks for your reply.

    I should precise that the PDF was downloaded.

    Then you're most likely stuck with it. PDF isn't really "editable" in
    that sense (ignoring Adobe Acrobat or whatever it's called).

    I'd try pdf2ps and then back with ps2pdf. Just for kicks. Might work.

    Anecdote: I once got sent a PDF to "sign": what the sender meant was:
    print out, sign, scan in.

    I imported the PDF in Gimp, beamed in a signature of me I have as a
    scan with transparent background and exported the thing again. "Will
    look about right, but will be enormous, since it's now basically a
    pixmap somehow wrapped up in a PDF.

    To my surprise, the result was *significantly smaller* than the original.

    Go figure.

    Cheers
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