PDFtk
PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server (open-source command-line tool), PDFtk Free (freeware) and PDFtk Pro (proprietary paid). It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both CLI and GUI versions of PDFtk are available.
| PDFtk | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Sid Steward |
| Initial release | July 14, 2004 |
| Stable release | 2.02
/ July 24, 2013[1] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | PDF utility |
| License | Proprietary[2] / GPL |
| Website | www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/  |
PDFtk (short for PDF Toolkit) is a toolkit for manipulating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.[3][4] It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.[5] It comes in three versions: PDFtk Server (open-source command-line tool), PDFtk Free (freeware) and PDFtk Pro (proprietary paid).[2] It is able to concatenate, shuffle, split and rotate PDF files. It can also show and update metadata. Both CLI and GUI versions of PDFtk are available.
Java implementation
[edit]pdftk-java is a port of PDFtk into Java[6] which is developed by Marc Vinyals and GPL licensed. The initial release was on December 30, 2017.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ PDFtk Version History, 2.02 – July 24, 2013.
- ^ a b "PDFtk – The PDF toolkit". PdfLabs.com.
- ^ Sharma, Shashank (February 4, 2021). "How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ Henry-Stocker, Sandra (March 1, 2021). "Creating and merging PDFs on Linux". Network World. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- ^ Steward, Sid (2004). PDF Hacks (1st ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4493-6220-1. OCLC 58557987.
- ^ Das, Ankush (September 24, 2017). "10 Best Linux PDF Editors You Can Use in 2020". ItsFOSS.com. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- PDF Chain, a GUI for Linux (GPL)
- An older GUI Archived December 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, working under Windows and most Linux distributions (GPL)
- PDFTK4ALL, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 0.2.1.0 beta from February 25, 2009 including a copy of PDFTK 1.41
- PDFTK Builder, a GUI for Windows (GPL), last release 3.10.0 from July 13, 2018
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