QPDF application package that enables developers to easily view, analyze and modify the structure of PDFs

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QPDF application package that enables developers to easily view, analyze and modify the structure of PDFs

#1 Post by lintalist »

Always useful to have options, webfork previously mentioned it - quoted below

Application package that enables developers to easily view, analyze and modify the structure of a PDF file such as merge, split, overlay/underlay, rotate etc. QPDF is also capable of creating linearized (also known as web-optimized) files and encrypted files.

QPDF Database entry https://cli.portablefreeware.com/?id=563
Similar to PDFtk Server https://cli.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=557


webfork wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:04 pm Another PDF editor: QPDF

In particular, this program does a lot of things but I've had difficulty finding a freeware program that protects PDF documents with good encryption (everything uses old, weak RC4), there's a command-line tool with batch operations that you can use.

The program does an amazing array of other interesting things to do with PDF, including compression and merging, but also something I hadn't heard of before: "Linearization" which is:
... a variant on the PDF file layout as described previously. Linearization is also called “Fast Web View”. Linearization shuffles the contents of the PDF file to place all of the information needed to display the first page near the beginning of the file.
(source: https://labs.appligent.com/pdfblog/linearization/)

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http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf- ... on-options
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programmin ... QPDF.shtml

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Thanks, lintalist. You are shaping up to be our PDF guy!

I also found this:
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases

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vevy wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:33 pm Thanks, lintalist. You are shaping up to be our PDF guy!
I thought of myself as that person, but I don't mind being supplanted or replaced. :)

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webfork wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:01 pm
vevy wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 1:33 pm Thanks, lintalist. You are shaping up to be our PDF guy!
I thought of myself as that person, but I don't mind being supplanted or replaced. :)
We can definitely use more than one PDF guy!

Or a death match, I dunno.

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