100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

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100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
Sid Steward
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Tool Up with pdftk Hack #79
Take control of your PDF with pdftk.
If PDF is electronic paper, pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole punch,
binder, secret-decoder ring, and X-ray glasses. pdftk is a simple, free tool for
doing everyday things with PDF documents. It can:
?Split and merge PDF pages [Hack #51]
?Decrypt and encrypt PDF documents [Hack #52]
?Burst a PDF document into single pages [Hack #71]
?Uncompress and recompress page streams [Hack #80]
The pdftk web site (http://www.AccessPDF.com/pdftk/) has links to software
downloads and instructions for installation and usage. pdftk currently runs
on Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Some users can
download precompiled binaries, while others must download the source
code and build pdftk using gcc, gcj, and libgcj (as described on the web site).
pdftk is free software.
On Windows, download pdftk_1.0.exe.zip to a convenient directory. Unzip
with your favorite archiving tool, and move the resulting pdftk.exe program…