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diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml index ac0d32cc..b5748c24 100644 --- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml +++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ make file is given as the primary input file is used as the starting point, but its pages are replaced with pages as specified. - <programlisting><option>--pages <replaceable>input-file</replaceable> [ <replaceable>--password=password</replaceable> ] <replaceable>page-range</replaceable> [ ... ] --</option> + <programlisting><option>--pages <replaceable>input-file</replaceable> [ <replaceable>--password=password</replaceable> ] [ <replaceable>page-range</replaceable> ] [ ... ] --</option> </programlisting> Multiple input files may be specified. Each one is given as the name of the input file, an optional password (if required to open @@ -636,6 +636,15 @@ make primary input. </para> <para> + Starting with qpdf 4.2.0, it is possible to omit the page range. + If qpdf sees a value in the place where it expects a page range + and that value is not a valid range but is a valid file name, qpdf + will implicitly use the range <literal>1-z</literal>, meaning that + it will include all pages in the file. This makes it possible to + easily combine all pages in a set of files with a command like + <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 |