yikes, sounds as if I need further information -
or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-)
Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-)
Ah, acronyms ;-)
tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html
(well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander
- puns are so much fun :-) )
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote:
>
> Felmon,
>> Looks like pdftk is written in Java.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk>
>>
>> So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime
>> Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty,
>> but functional.
>>
>> I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in
>> the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to
>> build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui
>> code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised
>> if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui.
>> Girvin Herr
>>
>
> good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'.
>
> makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms.
>
> I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of
> Windows or something.
>
> I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too.
>
> F.
>
>
>
>>
>> On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>>> I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused
>>> by the discussion of desktop environments.
>>>
>>> it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the
>>> Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui
>>> interface on Linux.
>>>
>>> Felmon
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>
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