splitappendix

A simple shellscript for splitting the PDF of a paper into the main body and an appendix.

This isn't exactly rocket science, but it's something I have to do frequently enough when submitting academic papers that I figured it's worth semi-automating. Hopefully you find it saves you a few minutes each time too!

Installation

Simply clone the repo, move/rename the script to your somewhere on your $PATH, and make it executable. For example:

git clone git@github.com:egrefen/splitappendix.git
cd splitappendix
chmod +x splitappendix.sh
echo ln -s `pwd`/splitappendix.sh ~/.local/bin/splitapp

Usage

splitapp path_to_paper.pdf first_page_of_appendix

This assumes you've named the script splitapp and put it in your path. Once run, the files submission.pdf and appendix.pdf will be put in the same directory as the target paper.

License

This project is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.