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PDF Best Practise

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Program

Description

pdftk

http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/

pdfanomyzer

pdfanonymizer -h

Overwrite all personal META information in the PDF file

pdfwordcount

pdfwordcount -h

Counts words in a PDF document using pdftotext and wc

pdfunprotect

pdfunprotect -h

Dumps a PDF file via ghostscript to a new PDF file. Removes some password protection during this way

pdfrepair

pdfrepair -h

Tries to repair a corrupted PDF file with the tools 'pdftk (Java), pdftops (ghostscript), acroread (Adobe)'

pdfshuffler

http://pdfshuffler.sourceforge.net/

Merge, Rearrange, Delete files and pages

|| cutepdf || Virtual Windows PDF printer ||

Acrobat

www.adobe.com

Create PDF

Sun Ray (Linux)

Windows

console

lp -d pdf {file}
ps2pdf {file}.ps

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Firefox, Thunderbird

* Print to printer pdf
* Print as file

* Print to printer cute_pdf
* Print as file

OpenOffice

* Print to printer pdf
* Export as PDF

* Print to printer cute_pdf
* Export as PDF

other application

Print to printer pdf

Print to printer cute_pdf

Merge PDF Files

Sun Ray (Linux)

Windows

console

pdfmerge, pdftk

-

GUI

pdfshuffler

Acrobat

Rearrange Pages in PDF files

Sun Ray (Linux)

Windows

console

pdftk

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GUI

pdfshuffler (Applications > Office > PDF Shuffler)

Acrobat ()

Anomyze PDF Files

Sun Ray (Linux)

Windows

|| console || pdfanonymizer

Count words in PDF files