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A simple, GPL-licensed command-line tool for manipulating PDF documents.

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Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Pdftk can

  • Merge PDF Documents
  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document
  • Rotate PDF Pages or Documents
  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
  • Encrypt Output as Desired
  • Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
  • Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
  • Update PDF Metadata
  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
  • Unpack PDF Attachments
  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
  • Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)
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How to repair a PDF file and embed missing fonts

I use pdftk to repair some failures in corrupted PDF files, but I faced another problem which is not fixed by pdftk (or at least I do not know how to do so). I have PDF files with text based on TrueType fonts, but the fonts have not been embedded…
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How do you combine PDFs in ruby?

This was asked in 2008. Hopefully there's a better answer now. How can you combine PDFs in ruby? I'm using the pdf-stamper gem to fill out a form in a PDF. I'd like to take n PDFs, fill out a form in each of them, and save the result as an n-page…
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PDF Form filling with FPDF and then Flatten with PDFTK displays un-filled PDF

I'm using the "Form Filling" script from fpdf.org to fill some fields on a PDF Form I created. This appears to work properly. I want the resulting PDF form to be flattened so users can not edit the form fields. I'm using PDFTK for that. However,…
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Insert a blank page between each existing page in a PDF document

I've got a PDF and I want a fast way to insert a blank page every second page (except at the end). E.g. my PDF has the pages 1: A 2: B 3: C 4: D it should look like: 1: A 2: empty 3: B 4: empty 5: C 6: empty 7: D Is there any easy scripting way to…
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Open a pdf with blank password with pdftk

We occasionally receive pdf files with blank/empty passwords. We use pdftk and under these circumstances it fails. We have tried: pdftk input.pdf input_pw output output.pdf pdftk input.pdf input_pw \ output output.pdf pdftk input.pdf input_pw ''…
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Add margin to PDF file when merging using PDFTK or similar

I have a large collection of half-page sized PDF cut-sheets that are held in a folder on my Linux server. A user to the site will want to create a booklet from a subset of these. The booklet will be bound therefore the even pages of the collection…
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Stamp PDF file with control for position of stamp file

Does anyone know about stamping PDF file to PDF file and also controls for positioning PDF file stamp? I have a file orginal.pdf and logo.pdf. I want to stamp logo.pdf file to file orginal.pdf at the top left of file original.pdf. How can it be done…
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Problem with size of the imported PDF template with FPDI+TCPDF

I am stuck in a very complex situation. I am working on a PHP Web apps for Greeting card. For this, I am using some Linux tools and TCPDF and FPDI. Let me tell you how it all works: there is 4 page greeting card template PDF file. this is custom…
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set output location for pdftk sample.pdf burst

I've a question, I am using tdftk to split pages of a pdf file from php. using following command $command = escapeshellcmd("pdftk ").escapeshellarg("/var/www/card/card.pdf")." ".escapeshellcmd(" burst"); $result = passthru($command); it's working…
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Fill PDF form using Ruby

I'm trying to programmatically fill out a pdf using ruby. The pdf has fields that permit text to be entered: I've had success in the past using pdftk via the pdf_form gem, however it doesn't find the fields in this particular pdf: $ pry [1]…
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Flatten FDF / XFDF forms to PDF in PHP with utf-8 characters

My scenario: A PDF template with formfields: template.pdf An XFDF file that contains the data to be filled in: fieldData.xfdf Now I need to have these to files combined & flattened. pdftk does the job easily within php: exec("pdftk template.pdf…
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Split PDF by multiple pages using PDFTK?

I am finding it hard to phrase this question and could not find an online solution for what I'm trying to do. I know how to split a large PDF into single pages with PDFTK using the following script: pdftk your_file.pdf burst output…
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Modify existing PDF to add "Page N of NNN" footer

How can I use pdftk either from the command line (or preferably from Ruby) to add page numbers to the bottom of a pre-existing PDF? I'm looking for this format: Page 1 of 2 Page 2 of 2
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pdftk Error: Failed to open PDF file:

I am using pdftk library to extract the form fields from the pdf .Everything is just running fine except the one issue that i got a pdf file pdf file link. which causes the error is given bellow Error: Failed to open PDF file: …
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Attach an image to an existing PDF at the right position

So, here's the thing, we have a bunch of pdf forms for users on our website to fill out, we have a submission button inside every pdf form that sends the filled data through a http post method. We are already doing a pre-filled form, where the user…
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