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author | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2019-01-12 15:14:20 +0100 |
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committer | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2019-01-12 16:01:47 +0100 |
commit | 654c0e8caf5e75119534de5d93d1ee28bd13325a (patch) | |
tree | 7411c6b4af43de86fc0aa977deb29657806c6b48 /manual | |
parent | 53d8e916b75b983c18d4611e91d6e74cb51a49ec (diff) | |
download | qpdf-654c0e8caf5e75119534de5d93d1ee28bd13325a.tar.zst |
Allow adding the same page more than once in --pages (fixes #272)
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-rw-r--r-- | manual/qpdf-manual.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml index f7c528b7..034111c2 100644 --- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml +++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml @@ -983,15 +983,6 @@ make <command>qpdf --empty out.pdf --pages *.pdf --</command>. </para> <para> - It is not presently possible to specify the same page from the - same file directly more than once, but you can make this work by - specifying two different paths to the same file (such as by - putting <filename>./</filename> somewhere in the path). This can - also be used if you want to repeat a page from one of the input - files in the output file. This may be made more convenient in a - future version of qpdf if there is enough demand for this feature. - </para> - <para> The page range is a set of numbers separated by commas, ranges of numbers separated dashes, or combinations of those. The character “z” represents the last page. A number preceded by an @@ -1112,6 +1103,12 @@ outfile.pdf</option> are all corner cases that most users should hopefully never have to be bothered with. </para> + <para> + Prior to version 8.4, it was not possible to specify the same page + from the same file directly more than once, and the workaround of + specifying the same file in more than one way was required. + Version 8.4 removes this limitation. + </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="ref.advanced-parsing"> <title>Advanced Parsing Options</title> |