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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 get total number of pages using pdftk?

i am using pdftk to get total page number of a pdf file in php. I am using the code. my pdftk.exe file is in assets/pdftk folder and my pdf file is in Files folder $command = '../assets/pdftk/pdftk.exe '; $command.="../Files/" .…
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node.js child process doesn't work in node webkit

I made a small app with node webkit. Pre-packaging, it works fine. But after I zipped it and added it to Contents/Resources in node-webkit.app I get an error when I run the app. It opens fine, but the task it does involves child processes, and I…
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Checking checkbox with pdftk library in Ruby on Rails

I have an application when customer is registering and when he complete the registration he's got filled pdf template. To fill pdf templates I use this gem: https://github.com/jkraemer/pdf-forms But with this library I don't know how to check…
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How can I drop metadata fields (e.g., PageLabel fields) from PDFs?

I have used pdftk to change the "Info" metadata associated with a PDF. I currently have several PDFs with extraneous page labels and I cannot figure how to drop them. This is what I am currently doing: $ pdftk example_orig.pdf dump_data output…
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Getting PDFTK installed on heroku Cedar Stack for use in my app

so I have building management app, which locally uses the pdftk to generate pdf forms (prefilled with tenant/expense data). Works like magic on my local machine. However, on Heroku I get the error: pdftk executable /usr/local/bin/pdftk not found in…
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batch set var in for loop

I am working on making a list of pdf files. There are 2480 pdfs in the directory. I want to put the first half in var l1 and the second in var l2. for /r %%f in (*_*.pdf) do ( set c=%%~nf set c=%c:~5,4% if %c% LEQ 1240 ( set l1=%l1% %%~nf.pdf…
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how to get pdftk to burst to source file name plus page number?

How can I use pdftk to burst to the same filename as the source file plus a number? Sample input source.pdf Desired output source-1.pdf (it is ok if page number has leading zeroes, but not required) source-2.pdf Maybe I could use a .bat file to…
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pdftk error when using checkbox on pdf form

When I use checkbox on pdf form, pdftk gives the following error and does not create output pdf. Unhandled Java Exception: Unhandled Java Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.12) at…
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Pdftk form filling font resize

I'm using pdftk to fill inputs in a pdf form. I have no problem to generate a XFDF file and merge data & template, but sometimes the value is longer than the field, and the text is just cut. Is there a way to adapt the font dynamically, or something…
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PHP set proc_open to output directly to user

I'm using proc_open with pdftk to pre-fill some forms with data, this works pretty well, but rather than save the result to a file and then read the file back, I'd like to print the file directly out. I've got this working so I'm not having any…
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Is there a limit on the length of command passed to exec in PHP?

Currently I need to merge that 50+ PDF files into 1 PDF. I am using PDFTK. Using the guide from: http://www.johnboy.com/blog/merge-multiple-pdf-files-with-php But it is not working. I have verified the following: I have tried the command to merge 2…
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How to install pdftk on Amazon Linux AMI release 2012.03

I am not able to install the pdftk on Amazon Linux AMI release 2012.03. pdftk requires gcj2.14 and amazon ami provides gcj2.12 package. If I try to install gcj2.14 getting conflicts with the existing gcj package. Please suggest a way to install…
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Ghostscript script or other, to interleave odd and even pages from two multipage pdf files

My scanner has a paper feed but no duplex scanning. Thus, if I scan a multi-page document that is printed on both sides of the sheet, I will end up with two pdf files, one containing all odd pages (the odd-page pdf file), the other all even pages…
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pdftk + xfdf + php can't handle umlauts

I'm using XFDF files to fill out PDF-forms serverside with PHP and pdftk but my problem is that no non-english characters (ä, ö, å etc.) are printed to the form fields. Here is the function I use to parse the XFDF file: function…
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Why does repeated bursting of a multi-page PDF into individual pages via pdftk change the md5 checksum of those pages?

I'm using pdftk and doing some testing and finding that bursting a multipage PDF file into separate single page PDF files, and then generating an md5 hash checksum (digital fingerprint) for each of those single page PDFs results in a different hash…
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