PDF Best Practise
Contents
Program |
Doc |
Mode |
Description |
pdftk |
Text |
Merge, Rearrange, Delete files and pages |
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pdfanomyzer |
pdfanonymizer -h |
Text / Nautilus |
Overwrite all personal META information in the PDF file. |
pdfwordcount |
pdfwordcount -h |
Text / Nautilus |
Counts words in a PDF document using pdftotext and wc. |
pdfunprotect |
pdfunprotect -h |
Text / Nautilus |
Dumps a PDF file via ghostscript to a new PDF file. Removes some password protection during this way. |
pdfrepair |
pdfrepair -h |
Text / Nautilus |
Tries to repair a corrupted PDF file with the tools 'pdftk (Java), pdftops (ghostscript), acroread (Adobe)'. |
pdfshuffler |
GUI / Nautilus |
Merge, Rearrange, Delete files and pages. Applications > Office > PDF Shuffler or |
|
cutepdf |
GUI |
printer driver |
|
Acrobat |
GUI |
Application and printer driver. Start > Programs > Text > Adobe |
Create PDF
|
Linux |
Windows |
console |
lp -d pdf {file} |
- |
Firefox, Thunderbird |
* Print to printer pdf |
* Print to printer cute_pdf |
* Print to printer pdf |
* Print to printer cute_pdf |
|
other application |
Print to printer pdf |
Print to printer cute_pdf |
Merge PDF Files
|
Linux |
Windows |
console |
pdftk |
- |
GUI |
pdfshuffler |
Acrobat |
Example for pdftk:
pdftk cv.pdf research.pdf teaching.pdf cat output application.pdf
Joins the files cv.pdf, research.pdf and teaching.pdf into one file application.pdf.
Rearrange Pages in PDF files
|
Linux |
Windows |
console |
pdftk |
- |
GUI |
pdfshuffler |
Acrobat |
Example for pdftk:
pdftk A=cv.pdf B=research.pdf C=certificates.pdf cat A C2-4 B1 output application.pdf
Takes the whole of cv.pdf, pages 2 to 4 of certificates.pdf and the first page of research.pdf and merges them into one file application.pdf.
Anomyze PDF Files
|
Linux |
Windows |
console |
- |
|
GUI |
Nautilus |
Acrobat |
Count words in PDF files
PDF vergleichen
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