Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you tried mcpdf?
I heard about it now for the first time. If I understand correctly, it uses the same library as pdfTK, only a somewhat later version (e.g. with improved unicode handling). The main difference seems to be that it does not insist on gcj but apparently should work with any java: I had suspected that it is the library which depends on some gcj internals and not just the front-end which consists just of a few lines, anyway. So, indeed, this looks like it should be a drop-in replacement, though I did not check whether the license of the updated library changed. Anyway, it would be nice to have it in the tree. ;) > but testing with your tricky PDFs I do not remember anymore. I just remember that several times, when some deadline approached, I had to resort to pdftk at my institute's Debian (in the lack of a gcj at home), even for simple tasks as merging pdftex output with some scanned PDF pages: neither pdfjam nor poppler did it satisfactory, though I do not remember the reasons.
