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Inserting Blank Pages

Sometimes, for instance to get a printing arrangement right, it's useful to be able to insert blank pages into a PDF file. cpdf can add blank pages before a given page or pages, or after. The pages in question are specified by a range in the usual way:
$\begin{framed} \small\verb!cpdf -pad-before in.pdf 1 -o out.pdf! \par \vspace{2... ...for instance, to add a clean page between chapters of a document.) \end{framed}$
The dimensions of the padded page are derived from the media box of the page after or before which the padding is to be applied.

The -pad-every n operation places a blank page after every n pages, excluding any last one. For example...
$\begin{framed} \small\verb!cpdf -pad-every 3 in.pdf -o out.pdf! \par \vspace{2.5mm} \noindent Add a blank page after every three pages \end{framed}$
...on a 9 page document adds a blank page after pages 3 and 6.

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