Issue
pdfseparate requires to specify %d as PDF-page-pattern which is replaced by the page number.
$ pdfseparate CFL_1115_ISSUU.pdf cfl-%d.pdf works. It sets separated output file names as cfl-1.pdf, cfl-2.pdf, ..., cfl-10.pdf etc.
Now I need to add leading 0 to fix the file name string length. So when I try to use formatting characters in command $ pdfseparate CFL_1115_ISSUU.pdf cfl-%04d.pdf, it gives error Syntax Error: 'cfl-%04d.pdf' must contain '%d' if more than one page should be extracted
Can anybody suggest if such formatting is possible?
Solution
On my system (Mac OS X), using the most recent version of Poppler, v0.42.0, this command works as expected:
$ pdfseparate -l 10 PDF32000_2008.pdf cfl-%04d.pdf
$ ls -l cfl-*.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 11475 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0001.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 91252 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0002.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334441 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0003.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334443 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0004.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334444 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0005.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 93209 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0006.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 89540 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0007.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 64383 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0008.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 8334444 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0009.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 116229 23 Mär 18:58 cfl-0010.pdf
Answered By - Kurt Pfeifle Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)