PDF Tool Kit

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Ben Cooper

PDF Tool Kit

"If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic
staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and
X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a useful tool for handling PDF
documents. Every PDF user should have one in the top drawer
of his/her desktop. Use it to:

..Merge PDF Documents
..Split PDF Pages into a New Document
..Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
..Encrypt Output as Desired
..Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
..Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks
..Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
..Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk is also an example of how to use a library of Java
classes in a stand-alone C++ program. Specifically, it
demonstrates how GCJ and CNI allows C++ code to use iText's
(itext-paulo) Java classes."

For Windows or Linux.

It's been useful to me just for the 'burst' function.

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
 
Ben Cooper wrote in said:
PDF Tool Kit [ http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ ]
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It's been useful to me just for the 'burst' function.
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Thanks for the tip. I've been using a "pdf printer" (printer driver)
for that up to now. Print a page or range of pages from Acrobat
Reader, print output sent to the pdf printer and there saved as a new
pdf. Will have a look at the PDF Tool Kit to see if the burst feature
can simplify things, particulary for when I want to grab several pages
as single pages from the same pdf.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Martyn wrote in
Wish it was a "real" WYSIWYG application for Windows...
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And I wish you (and unfortunately many others in this group) would
snip. No need to quote entire messages back to us (signature and all)
when they are available in the thread.

As for the PDF Toolkit, <>http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/> I
understand your wish for a GUI app, but quite frankly I love the
command line for certain tasks, where it much faster than loading a
GUI app and moving about in the menus, or waiting while it works. Just
tested the burst command: a 1mb pdf file carved up into 89 pdf files
(one page per file) in a split second!... (I did not use a command
timer, but it was fast!)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn Simonsen wrote in
tested the burst command: a 1mb pdf file carved up into 89 pdf files
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I meant to say a 7mb file.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn said:
As for the PDF Toolkit, <>http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/> I
understand your wish for a GUI app, but quite frankly I love the
command line for certain tasks, where it much faster than loading a
GUI app and moving about in the menus, or waiting while it works. Just
tested the burst command: a 1mb pdf file carved up into 89 pdf files
(one page per file) in a split second!... (I did not use a command
timer, but it was fast!)
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It sounds like it works well. I downloaded it at work late
on Friday so I didn't get a chance to test it on any large
(100M +) PDFs. I did test it on a small, 16pg, 26M catalog I
made and it split it quite fast. Using the burst command
alone will likely save me hours of work.
 
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