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XpdfSplice^TM Library

The XpdfSplice library/component allows you to split and/or combine PDF files.

XpdfSplice extracts pages from input PDF documents and combines them together into output PDF documents. This process can involve any number of input files and any number of output files - for example, you can:

split an input PDF file into one output PDF file for each page
combine several input PDF files into a single large PDF file
combine just the first page from each PDF file into a single PDF file
etc.

The core functionality is based on a single function: take a specified page from an input PDF file and append it to a new, output PDF file. With that single function, any combination of splitting, merging, etc. is possible.

XpdfSplice is easy to use:

XpdfSpliceInputHandle in1, in2;
XpdfSpliceOutputHandle out1, out2;

// open the input files
in1 = xpdfSpliceOpenInput("input1.pdf");
in2 = xpdfSpliceOpenInput("input2.pdf");

// open the output files
out1 = xpdfSpliceOpenOutput("output1.pdf", 1.6);
out2 = xpdfSpliceOpenOutput("output2.pdf", 1.6);

// copy page 1 from both input files to the first output file
xpdfSpliceAddPage(in1, 1, out1);
xpdfSpliceAddPage(in2, 1, out1);

// copy page 2 from both input files to the second output file
xpdfSpliceAddPage(in1, 2, out2);
xpdfSpliceAddPage(in2, 2, out2);

xpdfSpliceCloseInput(in1);
xpdfSpliceCloseInput(in2);
xpdfSpliceCloseOutput(out1);
xpdfSpliceCloseOutput(out2);

Supported platforms:

Windows: DLL
Windows: COM component - usable from Visual Basic, Delphi, etc.
Linux: shared library
Mac: shared library
other platforms: portable C++ source code for the library is available

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