PDFtk Builder [PDFtk GUI]
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:41 am
[Present is now the official forum topic of PDFtk Builder -- https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1066]
PDFtk Builder (v. 2.35) is another GUI -- and I think an excellent one -- for use with PDFtk's command line pdf tools.
The program file (and, optionally, a small help file) should be extracted from the zip volume into the same directory as PDFtk.exe. To run the program, just double click on PdftkBuilder.exe.
I did not find any registry or user directory writes from running the program.
The uncompressed executable is 508kb, and it includes an optional help file that is an additional 19kb (but you probably won't need that). The executable can be UPX-compressed to 201kb without any loss of functionality -- but I don't think Andrew reports compressed sizes, only uncompressed sizes, in the database.
I much prefer PDFtk Builder to GUI for PDFtk (1MB), which is also in the database, as PDFtk Builder is much smaller and I find it to be more functional (for example, in reordering pages within a pdf file or creating a new file from selected pages of multiple source pdf files). For comparison, see the database entry for GUI for PDFtk at http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=17#post.
Actually, I have written my own interactive batch files to use with PDFtk and I think they work better than any of the GUI's -- but Andrew doesn't allow batch files in the database. My batch files are, of course, tiny (about 2kb).
Download zip volume of PDFtk Builder v. 2.35 (updated 7/22/06) from http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb .
(Download PDFtk command line version at http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk )
Screenshot of PDFtk Builder is at http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/pdftkb.gif .
-- Yucca
PDFtk Builder (v. 2.35) is another GUI -- and I think an excellent one -- for use with PDFtk's command line pdf tools.
The program file (and, optionally, a small help file) should be extracted from the zip volume into the same directory as PDFtk.exe. To run the program, just double click on PdftkBuilder.exe.
I did not find any registry or user directory writes from running the program.
The uncompressed executable is 508kb, and it includes an optional help file that is an additional 19kb (but you probably won't need that). The executable can be UPX-compressed to 201kb without any loss of functionality -- but I don't think Andrew reports compressed sizes, only uncompressed sizes, in the database.
I much prefer PDFtk Builder to GUI for PDFtk (1MB), which is also in the database, as PDFtk Builder is much smaller and I find it to be more functional (for example, in reordering pages within a pdf file or creating a new file from selected pages of multiple source pdf files). For comparison, see the database entry for GUI for PDFtk at http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=17#post.
Actually, I have written my own interactive batch files to use with PDFtk and I think they work better than any of the GUI's -- but Andrew doesn't allow batch files in the database. My batch files are, of course, tiny (about 2kb).
Download zip volume of PDFtk Builder v. 2.35 (updated 7/22/06) from http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb .
(Download PDFtk command line version at http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk )
Screenshot of PDFtk Builder is at http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/pdftkb.gif .
-- Yucca