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Some commands I have frequently used to edit documents
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| ### Marcos Diez García | |
| ### 12 October 2019 | |
| # Change the commands' arguments to suit your needs. Use at your own risk. | |
| # 1. Simple way to find .tex files' paths to install manually a package from CTAN | |
| # kpsewhich package-name | |
| kpsewhich natbib.sty | |
| # 2. Use inkscape to export an image in the working directory to PDF + tex file | |
| inkscape -D -z --file=input-image.svg --export-pdf=output-image.pdf --export-latex | |
| # 3. Use inkscape to convert PNG to SVG | |
| inkscape -z -f path-to-png/input-image.png -l path-to-svg/output-image.svg | |
| # 4. Extract pages from PDF using ghostcript (no 3rd party sofware) | |
| gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=10 -sOutputFile=path-to-file/output-file-name.pdf input-file.pdf | |
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