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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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Apk add pdftk unsatisfiable constraints

Can somebody explain to me why I get a unsatisfiable constraints: pdftk (missing): required by: world[pdftk] error when running apk update apk add pdftk in my alpine docker-image, although it seems to be included in alpine? Best regards
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How to concatenate multiple pdf as one, each input pdf starting on an even page?

DUPLICATE OF How can I merge PDF files (or PS if not possible) such that every file will begin in a odd page? I have a serie of documents, each one with an unpredictable number of pages. Say : a.pdf (1 page : A1) b.pdf (3 pages : B1, B2, B3) c.pdf…
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pdftk fill_form utf8 problems

Possible Duplicate: Flatten FDF / XFDF forms to PDF in PHP with utf-8 characters I am using pdftk to fill template pdf with data from fdf. Data has correct utf-8 characters, but when I use fill_form, resulting pdf file has formating errors. (I…
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Bulk template based pdf generation in PHP using pdftk

I am doing a bulk generation of pdf files based on templates and I ran into big performance issues pretty fast. My current scenario is as follows: get data to be filled from db create fdf based on single data row and pdf form write .fdf file to…
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How do I determine programmatically if a PDF is searchable?

I have a CSV with a list of URLs with PDFs: Some of these PDFs are searchable. Some of these PDFS aren't searchable. I want to determine which PDFs are searchable from my list of PDFs. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Filling PDF form with PDFTK (or php/javabridge) ignoring certain unicode chars

Possibly related question 1, Related question 2 What We're trying to accomplish: Use drupal webform submition data as a source to fill a PDF form and serve it to the user, flattened for printing. We're trying to deploy this on Drupal 6 and later on…
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Alternative `pdftk multistamp` to `pdftk` once it's no longer available?

I'm using pdftk multistamp on a server for adding custom page numbering, page headers and page footers to big (500-1200 pages) PDF files. I do this by counting number of pages in the input, creating suitable empty pages with page numbers, headers…
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How to set up pdftk or iText to work with Rails 3 on Heroku?

I'm trying to find a way to inject FDF file content into a fillable PDF file (provided by customer and not supposed to be 're-drawn' using Prawn or PDFKit), and I think I have to use either iText(with JRuby) or pdftk. Both of these libs work with…
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Merge FDF and PDF without PDFTK

Is there a way to merge FDF file and a PDF File to create a flat format of all the data and form into 1 pdf without using PDFTK? Any light shed upon this would be greatly appreciated.
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Import PDF file into XeLaTeX gives "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object" error

I'm trying to import a PDF into a XeLaTeX using \includepdf{xyz.pdf}. The file xyz.pdf is a scan created by a Xerox 5755 machine, and PDF version 1.3. The error I get is: ** WARNING ** No valid name object found. ** WARNING ** Could not find…
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PDFTK - and the ability to change the default view

I have been merging PDFs using PDFTK with great success, the pages that are used to generate the pdf are set to 'click to show one page at a time' (basically the whole of the first page is displayed when the pdf opens, based on the height of the…
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Adding metadata to PDF via PHP

I need to augment a PDF with a custom metadata field on download in PHP (5.3). I have been looking at the pdftk library, but I can't get my head around how I would get PHP to interface with it on our (Ubuntu) web server. The deprecated PDFInfo…
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Executing "pdftk my-pdf-form.pdf dump_data_fields" shows nothing

I am using the tool pdftk, I have got a editable PDF and I saw in the documentation the arguments dump_data_fields should show me the fields of the form. I use this command (windows): pdftk my-pdf-form.pdf dump_data_fields I am using the pdftk…
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Pdftk cyrillic characters encoding

When i flatten a pdf document using pdftk the cyrillic characters don't appear correctly. а о й gets converted to а о Ð I tried changing the encoding on the pdf , passing the data through utf8_decode() - that only worked for letters such as ä ø,…
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Command line tool to mark PDF to open in Single Page view

Short Question : Is there a PDF command line/shell tool (for osx) which can set the necessary property(ies) on a PDF for it to be opened initially in "Single Page View" (fit to window) More Info I'm currently generating PDFs using WkhtmlToPdf and…
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