[Leaplist] PDF tools

[Steve Litt]

Glad to help Andrei,

By the way, in my latest book I moved away from PDF tweaking and started doing 
more with tweaking the LyX (or LaTeX as appropriate) file, and then 
compiling. I'm now putting the book cover on inside the LaTeX file rather 
than patching it onto the front with pdftk.

I've discovered that when writing a book in LyX, it's most handy to "fine 
tune" the front matter with a lot of ERT (Evil Red Text, embedded LaTeX) 
rather than selecting a document class just to accommodate needs in the 
frontmatter. I believe the frontmatter is meant to be pieced together 
manually, as every frontmatter is a one-off. I save the document class 
features for mainmatter, where consistincy is essential.

SteveT


On Sunday 13 May 2007 10:49, andrei raevsky wrote:
> thanks for the good info Steve!
>
> On 5/11/07, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 May 2007 11:15, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Here's a site with pdftk info...
> >
> > http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
> >
> > SteveT
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