[plug] ghostscript or similar tweak needed

[Daniel Pittman]

Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com> writes:

> I've scanned parts of an 'out of print' book for personal research
> (within fair use conditions, and all that) and saved it as a multipage
> pdf using xsane. Trouble is, to fit the book on the scanner bed in a
> 'sane' way, I had to rotate the book upside down for all the facing
> pages. Does anyone know if I can use ghostscript or some other tool
> combined with a little scripting to go thru' the document and rotate
> every other page 180deg before saving it as a new pdf file?

I would expect that pdftk could do the job for you, working directly
with the PDF.  It certainly seems capable enough to me.

Regards,
        Daniel