pdftk (PDF ToolKit) is a multiplatform open source tool for manipulating PDF documents.
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Remove PDF margins and print 2 pages per side
I print out a lot of pdf articles, and I'd like to use less paper by printing 2 pages per side. But due to the large margins---both from the original pdf file and added by the printing process---the ...
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unix tools to merge pdf [duplicate]
I'm looking for an alternate to ghostscript to merge pdf tools.
We generally have print jobs containing more than 3000 documents, which are to be merged into a pdf. Ghostscript does this whole ...
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How to extract all info on PDF bookmarks using GhostScript?
Is there a method of dumping all info on the bookmarks of a PDF using GhostScript?
With PDFtk I could use pdftk in.pdf dump_data, but is it possible to do it with GS?
I have a PDF with bookmarks ...
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How can I stamp every page of a pdf except the first one?
I have two PDF files; one is a document and the other is a single page containing a graphic. So far I have been using pdftk to stamp the graphic onto the document like so:
pdftk document.pdf stamp ...
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How can I append two PDFs that have links
My problem
I have two PDFs which I would like to merge to one PDF. The first one was generated with LaTeX and has links to the chapters, the second one is a GUI-draft with links created with ...
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pdftk: Compressing a bunch of PDFs en masse/in batch while keeping the filenames?
I have a rather simple problem. I have a lot of PDFs that I want to compress, all grouped by college class. I don't have the time or energy to manually run the compress command when I know I can ...
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fit multiple pdf pages to one
Is it somehow possible to "zoom out" a multi-page PDF to fit all pages to one via command line (must work under Linux)
e.g. I have a PDF generated with XSL:FO/FOP with a table (the red one in the ...
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Batch file to process the combining of 2 sets of pdf files together in a directory
I am looking for a script that can do the following:
I have
500 pdf files with naming convention: SC####.pdf
500 pdf files with naming convention: AB####.pdf
I want a batch file to check if there ...
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How to add text at bottom of pages using pdftk?
I am wondering ho to put a link text at the bottom of all pages of a pdf file using pdftk. Appreciate your help.
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How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk?
I need to remove some stupid email watermark that expands across all pages of a public domain book. I looked at pdftk man page and some examples but still can not figure out how to remove the ...
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How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk? [closed]
I need to remove some stupid email watermark that expands across all pages of a public domain book. I looked at pdftk man page and some examples but still can not figure out how to remove the ...
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What free tool can be used to password-protect .pdf files without displaying password during entry?
What is a "good" tool to encrypt (password protect) .pdf files? (without being required to buy additional software; the protection can be created under linux but the password query should work on ...
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Installing pdftk on Amazon EC2 Linux Instance
I am having trouble installing pdftk on an amzn-ami-2011.09.2.x86_64-ebs (ami-953b06e1) instance.
Since pdftk is not in the list of available packages I have tried to build it from source but failed ...
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How do I 'unbook' a pdf [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I split a PDF's pages down the middle?
I have a pdf file that was made into a booklet format. It is meant to print on A4 paper in landscape orientation; here ...
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How to merge multiple PDF files onto one page with pdftk?
I have a range of PDF files 1.pdf, 2.pdf, etc. that I would like to merge into one file, with all the PDFs tiled on one page.
Currently, I have tried pdftk to merge these files, but they are put on ...
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Use Ghostscript, but tell it to not reprocess images?
I have a PDF that has already compressed and somewhat artifact-y images, and I'm using Ghostscript to prepend a title page to that PDF.
However, I cannot find any way to tell GS to just use the ...
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tag cloud search of text in linux
a lot of times i have to search through scientific papers that are on my computer. i think having a tagcloud would help. is there a program that creates a tagcloud picture in ubuntu?
ideally i would ...
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pdftk issue after updating Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10
We upgraded our server to 9.10 from 9.04 the other day, and it all went well except for one rather important program.
We're using pdftk to automatically generate filled out pdf forms. On 9.04, it ...
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pdftk: multiple page ranges
I want to grab a few pages from a large (600+ pgs) document using pdftk. How can I do this?
example: suppose the pages I need are 300, 307-310, and 315-318 from a file named "bloated.pdf". This ...
