Perhaps it makes more sense to use something like TCL to pipe the pdf
document through a program that already knows how to do all the things
Bob wants done, such as /Irfanview /in the Windows world (my favorite
image viewer). I am not sure what is the nearest homologue to
/Irfanview /in the Linux world.
UK
On 6/4/2010 3:15 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
Hi Liviu,
Thanks for the link. I wasn't even aware that this project existed. (I
sincerely hope that I will eventually overcome my own ignorance.)
Anything that will make pdftk easier to ease and more accessible to others is a
worthy endeavor. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that it meets the specific need I
describe (direct manipulation of images, downsampling high resolution images,
conversion of color space, etc. versus simple compression and optimization).
For that matter, I don't think even the command line version of pdftk is
capable of directly manipulating images.
I'll look into this option, though. If it is possible to aid an existing (and
maintained) project, I consider that vastly superior to dumping more alpha
quality, unmaintained code into the world.
Cheers,
Rob
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Hello Rob
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Rob Oakes<[email protected]> wrote:
I came up empty handed.
What about PDF chain [1], an alpha-stage GUI to pdftk [2]? It has a
compress/uncompress dialogue, but I'm not sure that it does what
you're looking for.
Regards
Liviu
[1] http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
