[Leaplist] PDF tools

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 11 May 2007 11:30, Fred Moore wrote:
> does anyone know of any PDF tools GUI or CL which will manipulate PDF
> files, things like turning off printing, forms, encryption, extract
> text, split pages, merge pages etc.. I know openoffice will generate
> them but I want to edit them.

Hi Fred,

What you want is pdftk. It can do everything you mention above. There's a 
companion book, that you can but don't have to buy, about how PDFs work. 
pdftk itself is free software (GPL).

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

I use it frequently and recommend it highly.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/