Rava's questions

The ldd on my system is a script:

$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.35
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

$ file /usr/bin/ldd
/usr/bin/ldd: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable

$ head -n 29 /usr/bin/ldd|tail
# This is the `ldd' command, which lists what shared libraries are
# used by given dynamically-linked executables.  It works by invoking the
# run-time dynamic linker as a command and setting the environment
# variable LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to a non-empty value.

# We should be able to find the translation right at the beginning.
TEXTDOMAIN=libc
TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale

RTLDLIST="/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2"

At times, it fails to report anything, especially annoying when I try to figure out what dependencies are missing for a certain program.

Like today with evince

$ ldd /usr/bin/evince

$ evince
evince: error while loading shared libraries: libhandy-1.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

Any idea why ldd reports nothing? I know from past experiences with this issue that when I solved the 1st missing dependency (in this case: installing libhandy-1.so.0) then ldd would show the list of dependencies, including listing possible several other missing libraries. But I want ldd to work correctly from the very beginning. Sadly I have no clue how to fix that since ldd looks too complex a script for me to easily understand, and since it reports nothing at all I have not even a hint where it went wrong.

I have a longer duration AAC sound file that I want to split. It is an OST (Original Sound Tracks) compilation containing mostly voiceless / without singing soundtrack music, but also some songs with singing voice: intro, outro, and one that has an opera that is part of that episode. I want to create a version without any singing OSTs.

I know that there is a program for editing / cutting mp3 files without decoding and encoding - mp3splt - but is there a solution for AAC as well?
System: x86-64 Linux.

"file" tells me about the sound file this:

MPEG ADTS, AAC, v4 LC, 44.1 kHz, stereo

I have an important pdf where I need to extract the source image, as lossless as possible (e.g. using png) For some reason, it seems that the source image is made out of 226 image stripes, and when I extract these e.g. with

pdfimages -png name.pdf out-

I get the 227 tiny stripes. That is not what I want. Is there a way to get one single image instead? Using pdfimages -list tells me the info about the stripes, and using e.g. the above pdfimages -png name.pdf out- gives me the 227 single images. One image is e.g. 1604 px width and 5 px height. So far as I checked them, all images seem to be 5 px height, and with 227 single images, I should get one single image of 1604 x 1135 px instead.

Update I forgot to add what Ryan J. Yoder wrote below was also my own thought on the issue, meaning that the pdf was indeed created by splitting the original image into 227 stripes.

And in conclusion, if that is so (pdfimages -list says it is so) is there a way to automatically create one single image out of the stripes e.g. by using graphicsmagick.