Re: alternative to pdftk

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:15:57 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/15/19 12:48 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > What are the alternatives to pdftk? > > I need to rotate a pdf file. > > I use pdfshuffler. +1 d > ___ >

Re: alternative to pdftk

On 4/15/19 12:48 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: What are the alternatives to pdftk? I need to rotate a pdf file. I use pdfshuffler. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: alternative to pdftk

. pdf-stapler is very close to being a proper replacement. https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler It does all the concatenating and rotating and retaining-of-data stuff that pdftk does. It doesn't have a very robust system for dealing with bookmarks and other metadata. I coasted with pdf-stapler

Re: alternative to pdftk

2019-04-15 21:48 GMT+02:00, Patrick Dupre : > Hello, > > What are the alternatives to pdftk? > I need to rotate a pdf file. There's pdf90 (part of texlive-pdfjam) which, according to its man page, "rotates the pages of files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) through

Re: alternative to pdftk

qpdf and ImageMagick are among the suggestions on this page: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394065/command-line-how-do-you-rotate-a-pdf-file-90-degrees On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 3:48 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > What are the alternatives to pdftk? > I need to rotat

alternative to pdftk

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Re: pdftk

Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: pdftk > > > > You need PyPdf installed. > > > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0200 Patrick Dupre

Re: pdftk

015 at 7:20 PM > From: "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: pdftk > > You need PyPdf installed. > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0200 Patrick

Re: pdftk

:57 PM > > From: "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: pdftk > > > > Try it now, with 1 instead of 2 (you know where). &g

Re: pdftk

gt; wrote: >>> Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: >>> >>> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm >>> >>> I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, >>>

Re: pdftk

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > pdf-stapler or pdfshuffler are fine tools if you just want to collate PDFs, but pdftk did a lot more. I've been using it for years to merge d

Re: pdftk

ler to be a very good, perhaps better, > commandline replacement for pdftk (for my purposes, but of course, your needs > may vary). Thanks, Ranjan. Are you planning to insert your pdf-stapler rpm into some public repository? Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: pdftk

ber 02, 2015 at 6:57 PM > > From: "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Subject: Re: pdftk > > > > Try it now, with 1 instead of 2 (you know where). &g

Re: pdftk

ann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France > === > > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at 4:26 PM > > From: "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > > To: users@lis

Re: pdftk

rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > > > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm > > > > I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, > > commandline replacement for pdftk (for my purposes,

Re: pdftk

| | 59140 Dunkerque, France === > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at 6:57 PM > From: "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: pdftk > &

Re: pdftk

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Try again! > > I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the > package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Thanks again, Ranjan. I have just done that, and now the command

Re: pdftk

On Sep 2, 2015 12:51 PM, "Ranjan Maitra" wrote: > > Paul, > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar file on

Re: pdftk

l.com> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra > >> <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > >>> Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > >>> > >>> http://www.public.iastate

Re: pdftk

Dear All, I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: - $ pdf-stapler --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File

Re: pdftk

Try again! I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Best wishes, Ranjan On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but

Re: pdftk

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:14:59 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be > > changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. > > Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever

Re: pdftk

pdfstapler -help On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: > > - > $ pdf-stapler --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File

Re: pdftk

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people > are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar > file on

Re: pdftk

On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever told you to change "due to the guidelines" is wrong. Please post the review bugzilla

Re: pdftk

> > Github exports archives for any given commit, tag, or branch head. If > upstream has tagged releases on GitHub, you can use that as a source. I > personally prefer to do this; it seems odd to involve a third party, and I > can reliably associate the version in the package with the source

Re: pdftk

On 1 September 2015 at 17:09, Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, pdfshuffler does not have the same capabilities than pdftk. > It has a graphics interface. > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf Something like th

Re: pdftk

njan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: pdftk > > Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm > > I perso

Re: pdftk

Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, commandline replacement for pdftk (for my purposes, but of course, your needs

Re: pdftk

On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf > that I cannot have with pdfshuffler. This can easily be done with pdfshuffler. Just load the .pdf, mark page 3 and 4, right click and choose "export select

pdftk

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Re: pdftk

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:20:54 +0100 Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fed

Re: pdftk

On 1 September 2015 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hello, > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. > > Thank. Not sure, maybe a question for the developers list. itext (I'm assuming it's the same it

Re: pdftk

On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. dnf install poppler-utils pdfshuffler These tools together can replace most pdftk functionality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: pdftk

Unfortunately, pdfshuffler does not have the same capabilities than pdftk. It has a graphics interface. There is one command easy with pdftk: pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf that I cannot have with pdfshuffler. pdftk, is a well established and solid tool while pdfshuffer fails eventually

Re: pdftk

On 13.05.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: You can only wait for a few more weeks while the alternative pdf-stapler is approved. Or you can use poppler-utils, and you could also install F19 (the latest Fedora with a working pdftk) on an USB stick. That's what I did to tailor my documents. It's

Re: pdftk

It looks like that the last version of pdftk is pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 for fc21! it provides me an error: pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/gcj/itext/itext-2.1.7.jar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Where can I get: itext-2.1.7

pdftk

Hello, It looks like that the last version of pdftk is pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 for fc21! it provides me an error: pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/gcj/itext/itext-2.1.7.jar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Where can I get: itext-2.1.7

Re: pdftk

and testable version, don’t expect it to be stable and production ready. So while this may be a beginning, it's most probably not production ready. Here's another program which has quite the functionality pdftk has. I just downloaded the source and compiled it (it needs the ocaml compiler and libs

Re: pdftk

On 13.12.2014 10:41, Heinz Diehl wrote: ... (alternatively, I'll use a Windows 7 machine at work to do the pdf merging). https://www.winehq.org Use the Force, Luke ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: pdftk

On 13.12.2014, poma wrote: https://www.winehq.org Use the Force, Luke ... I do not want to run any Windows software on a Linux machine. Since I depend a lot on pdf merging functionality, I chose the shortest and easiest way if all fails. At work, I'm bound to Windows anyway.. -- users

Re: pdftk

to pdftk's functions. The author of this package states: It’s the first public and testable version, don’t expect it to be stable and production ready. So while this may be a beginning, it's most probably not production ready. Here's another program which has quite the functionality pdftk has

Re: pdftk

On 13.12.2014 14:10, Heinz Diehl wrote: ... I depend a lot on pdf merging functionality, I chose the shortest and easiest way if all fails. At work, I'm bound to Windows anyway.. http://cygwin.com Let go Luke -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: pdftk

Btw, I came across this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/?source=typ_t4_highlighted Not clear if this satisfies OSS requirements of Fedora but it would be at least a worthwhile alternative to pdftk's functions. Best wishes, Ranjan

Re: pdftk

...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless

Re: pdftk

: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given

Re: pdftk

Regrettably it's a slightly modified AGPL and, though IANAL, it looks like the problematic additional restriction is still there: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html Which is a pity, because I used to like pdftk and have been missing it since it was dropped

Re: pdftk

Which is a pity, because I used to like pdftk and have been missing it since it was dropped. Didn't know about mcpdu which Raman Gupta mentioned and will check it out. Would be cool if ITEXT could be brought back (think it does all the heavy lifting for pdftk), but would be to be approached

Re: pdftk

On 12/09/2014 09:48 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:01:46 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_64

Re: pdftk

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com wrote: What is the story with pdftk? As pointed out by others, it used a really old Java stack that is no longer supported. There is a more modern replacement called mcpdf. It supports the same command line syntax

Re: pdftk

On 12/10/2014 04:23 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com wrote: What is the story with pdftk? As pointed out by others, it used a really old Java stack that is no longer supported. There is a more modern replacement

Re: pdftk

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless to make

Re: pdftk

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:04:12 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed

Re: pdftk

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless to make

Re: pdftk

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed

Re: pdftk

On 12/10/2014 07:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk

Re: pdftk

I'm running pclos-kde, and I had not heard of pdftk, but my system has it available in the repos, so I looked up the description. It seems to be a very useful, competent tool with a lot of features, so I really don't understand why Fedora would drop it. However, it is available from PDF

Re: pdftk

that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior folk in Fedora can give a push for pdftk to be somewhere within the Linux world that Fedora users can

Re: pdftk

On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk

Re: pdftk

be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior folk in Fedora can give a push for pdftk

Re: pdftk

-0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior folk

pdftk

What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19 @fedora Is it orphaned? That would be a bummer! I depend on it a lot. Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set

Re: pdftk

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19 @fedora Is it orphaned? That would be a bummer! I depend on it a lot

Re: pdftk

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:01:46 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19

pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

I have been having this error since this morning: I has no problems last Thursday when I last used this so some update must have created some problem somewhere. $ pdftk --nup 2x2 random.pdf /usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD Can't get ouput from /usr/bin/build-classpath itext bcprov

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

* Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com [2014-01-28 15:02]: I have been having this error since this morning: I has no problems last Thursday when I last used this so some update must have created some problem somewhere. $ pdftk --nup 2x2 random.pdf /usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

somewhere. $ pdftk --nup 2x2 random.pdf /usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD Can't get ouput from /usr/bin/build-classpath itext bcprov bcmail bctsp: Success What is going on? How do I fix this? Hi, What does 'java -version' output? I get: $ java -version bash

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

I last used this so some update must have created some problem somewhere. $ pdftk --nup 2x2 random.pdf /usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD Can't get ouput from /usr/bin/build-classpath itext bcprov bcmail bctsp: Success What is going on? How do I fix

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

You've been affected by the recent selinux-policy-targeted bug, which broke installation of a few updates as long as you didn't apply the fix. Try reinstalling the java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless package and following these instructions: