PDF Best Practise

Program

Doc

Mode

Description

pdftk

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

Text

Merge, Rearrange, Delete files and pages

pdfanomyzer

pdfanonymizer -h

Text / Nautilus

Overwrite all personal META information in the PDF file.
Nautilus: right mouse click on one selected pdf files

pdfwordcount

pdfwordcount -h

Text / Nautilus

Counts words in a PDF document using pdftotext and wc.
Nautilus: right mouse click on one or more selected pdf files

pdfunprotect

pdfunprotect -h

Text / Nautilus

Dumps a PDF file via ghostscript to a new PDF file. Removes some password protection during this way.
Nautilus: right mouse click on one selected pdf files

pdfrepair

pdfrepair -h

Text / Nautilus

Tries to repair a corrupted PDF file with the tools 'pdftk (Java), pdftops (ghostscript), acroread (Adobe)'.
Nautilus: right mouse click on one selected pdf files

pdfshuffler

http://pdfshuffler.sourceforge.net/

GUI / Nautilus

Merge, Rearrange, Delete files and pages. Applications > Office > PDF Shuffler or
Nautilus: right mouse click on one or more selected pdf files

cutepdf

Virtual Windows PDF printer

GUI

printer driver

Acrobat

http://www.adobe.com

GUI

Application and printer driver. Start > Programs > Text > Adobe