Ted Roche wrote on 2014-12-10: > I've recommended PDFTK a couple of times here, and use it daily to run my > business, as well as a solution for a couple of my client's. PDFTK is a > command-line utility to manipulate PDF files, merging, collating, stamping > or data-merging PDFs with a zillion options. > > It is getting long-in-the-tooth and has caused some upgrading issues with > me over the past couple of years, as the versions I have are bound to older > libraries and an upgrade path is unclear. There's also some licensing > issues that means it's no longer included with Fedora/RedHat, my preferred > Linux builds. I have on occasion rebuilt it from source and it is not a > pretty thing; it uses a toolchain of Java build tools I'm not familiar > with, and had difficulty tweaking to work. > > I saw a thread on a Fedora Users forum this morning that suggested a > drop-in command-line replacement called mcpdf: > https://github.com/m-click/mcpdf > > "Mcpdf is a drop-in replacement for PDFtk. It fixes PDFtk's unicode issues > when filling in PDF forms, and is essentially a command line interface for > the iText PDF library with a PDFtk compatible syntax." > > Haven't tried it yet, but wanted to alert folks to the possibility. > > If someone here does work with it, I'd appreciate hearing how it works for > you.
Ted, Hello Ted, I had a need to go back and look for what you use to manipulate PDF's and found this message. In researching this tool. It is based on iText which uses the Affero General Public License. http://itextpdf.com/agpl This is an unknown area for me, and might require one to purchase a commercial license of iText to be able to use this tool in a product you distribute without sharing the source of it. Ugh, is all I have to say about the mud of the wording of this license. "The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities." YMMV, Tracy Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
