Questions tagged [pdftk]
PDFtk Free is our friendly graphical tool for quickly merging and splitting PDF documents and pages.
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Remove Adobe protection from PDF
When I open a PDF it prompts for a username and password. If I open it with any other program than Adobe it says only Adobe can open this PDF. I am not a fan of being limited to Adobe and we have ...
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Can't open pdftk-encrypted PDF in Acrobat
When I encrypt a PDF using pdftk under Ubuntu 22.04, I cannot decrypt it using Adobe Acrobat under Windows.
Following instructions here, I encrypt a PDF using pdftk:
pdftk input.pdf output output.pdf ...
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Why does installing "pdftk-java" change root certificate authority? Is this bad?
new ubuntu user here. I installed pdftk-java using sudo-apt, and it changed a lot of my root certificate authorities. Is this bad? I don't understand why this root certificate authority is needed by a ...
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pdftk stopped working with error "Unable to find file"
Since some time (possibly a month or two), pdftk stopped working on my system (Ubuntu 18.04, AFAIK all latest updates applied).
I now unconditionally get the error Error: Unable to find file:
pdftk A=...
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Allow open and print pdf file without asking a password but prevent editing content of the file using PDFTK?
I'm using pdftk to manage pdf files on a website , now what I'd like to know if is it possible to allow open and print pdf files without asking a password but prevent editing content of file using ...
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Merge images to PDF with xconvert-like options
I'm trying to merge images to PDF. Usually the following website is what I use.
https://www.xconvert.com/merge-image-to-pdf
Given the number of images, I'm thinking of automating the conversion with a ...
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pdftk works in home folder but not in www
I have installed pdftk using snap in Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo snap install pdftk
In my home folder pdftk works fine:
root@localhost:/home# a.pdf output secure.128.pdf owner_pw 123456
root@localhost:/home# ...
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Add watermark to all PDF pages
Please tell me how to use the command line correctly in this case.
And so the task, there are a lot of pdf files on all pages of these files I need to add a watermark.
I made watermark in pdf and it ...
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How do I add a video to a PDF file?
Adobe Acrobat allows to embed videos in PDF files. Is there a way to do this with a free tool like pdftk?
I have several slides in my pdf and I would like to add an mp4 or webm file among those slides....
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pdftk move page 1 to the end
I am looking for the correct script to move the first page to the end of a PDF file, regardless of how many pages the file has. It is unknown how many pages will be in each file but we want to move ...
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How can I merge numbered pdf files with pdftk?
I have to merge a lot of pdf files and I numbered them from 1 to 100 or more. I want to merge specific files.
Can I merge them doing something similar to this?
pdftk [1-20].pdf cat output out.pdf
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Combine each two pages to single from pdf book
I have such a pdf opened by Okular with Facing pages view mode (center first page).
I want to get all the two-pages view pictures, so manually crop them one by one.
How could extract them to pictures ...
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How to highlight pdf based on pattern matching from ubuntu terminal?
Aware that pdf can be read into the terminal using The Poppler Developers tools.
One of the tools which helps in checking for a pattern in the pdf and then printing in the terminal is
pdfgrep
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PDFTK cannot be run by www-data
I need to use PDFTK. It works when I use it in terminal as root, but when I try to use it with www-data I'm consistently getting a permission error.
When switching to www-data:
sudo -u www-data sh
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Split PDF into Multiple Page Ranges with Multiple Outputs
I need to split one PDF file into multiple PDFs, but using specific page ranges.
This CPDF command will split multiple page ranges, but merge them into a single PDF file.
cpdf in.pdf 1-3,90-97,112-...
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How to automate PDF processing (crop & reduce size) without breaking barcode? [duplicate]
I regularly receive shipping address labels in pdf format from the post. The pdf document containing the address label is formatted in a very stupid way taking up the entire A4, while just A6 would be ...
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PDFTK: combining files as root user
I have a website which uses PDFTK.
My site allows users to send PDF files via a form, then, at the click of a button, launches a combination of all files to create one.
When sending my files, my ...
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PDFTK library missing Apache Common Lib
I set up pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 using the following instructions:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:malteworld/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install pdftk
taken from a previously asked Askubuntu question. I ...
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pdftk snap in 18.04 not accepting commands
following the simple instructions in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/1048975 I installed pdftk as a snap on an ubuntu 18.04 VM. (we need some of the advanced features of pdftk on the command line ...
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How to run a java executable without java -jar [duplicate]
As pdftk is not yet available on Ubuntu 18.04 I compiled a pdftk fork following this excellent answer to a related question.
This works great, however I now have to type
java -jar build/jar/pdftk....
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How to install pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic? [duplicate]
I tried to install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04. It seems to be that the package is missing from official repositories.
How can I install pdftk?
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How can I install pdftk in Ubuntu 18.04 and later?
Is there any chance of getting pdftk working in Ubuntu 18.04?
I need this for creating PDF files with a watermark in shell.
Or, does anybody know a working alternative to pdftk to generate a PDF ...
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pdftk on Lubuntu 18.04 - is it possible? [closed]
Today I've migrated onto Lubuntu 18.04 from Ubuntu 16.04. Got a lot of scripts that use pdftk tool. But now I can't install it either with apt-get or with synaptic. Tried to install from deb - got a ...
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How to replace pages in pdf with bookmarks?
I have a pdf-file pdf1 with bookmarks and I have another pdf-file pdf2. I want to replace all (or part of) the pages of pdf1 with the pages of pdf2 so that the bookmarks stay where they were. In ...
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Script to convert images in subfolders to individual PDF's [duplicate]
I am looking for a way of automating a manual conversion of directories containing images (jpgs & pngs) into PDF's. For example ..
I currently use the following command to achieve what I want ...
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Create a PDF with specific page ranges of multiple PDF files?
I have found many related questions in this forum. But, none addresses my issue. Please double-check before marking it as duplicate.
Suppose I have two PDF files.
first.pdf having 10 pages.
second....
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Install pdftk-1.44 on ubuntu 16
We have installed Ubuntu 16.04 and apt-get install pdftk install the release 2.02
But I need to install the pdftk-1.44 for an application dependency related.
Any help in this matter would be highly ...
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How to split a PDF and keep its form fields
I am trying to split a multi-paged PDF document that contains form fields (check boxes, text boxes). In case it is important to know, the PDF's form fields are initially all blank/empty/un-checked. I ...
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Splitting all files in a folder with pdftk
I'm trying to use pdftk to split a folder containing pdf files into their constituent pages. Here is my code:
~/MCO/MCOs$ for file in *.pdf; do pdftk "$file" burst; done
The command itself does not ...
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Splitting large pdf based on page range?
Let us say I have a large pdf called input.pdf and take the page ranges 1-4 5-9 10-13 14-end (say) and put them into individual pdfs called output1.pdf, output2.pdf ... What is the best (and quickest) ...
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inserting few copies of the same page into PDF
I want to insert X blank pages into PDF document.
I can do it with pdftk :
pdftk A=book.pdf B=page.pdf cat A1-end B output output.pdf
When I want insert more than one page, I can do something like ...
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Can I make a PDF to expire after a specific date
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I want to know some extra security tips in dealing with PDF files. I found that we can easily make a PDF file password protected using pdftk command from here.
But is it ...
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Is there any tool to convert pdf to ppt/odp slides in Linux/ Ubuntu offline?
I am looking for a tool that converts PDF into PPT files or supports any tweak to import PDF files into LibreOffice-impress, LibreOffice-Draw imports the PDF but that does not do the job. So far I am ...
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How to extract first 10pages from each pdf files of a folder
I have 90 sub-folders in a folder. Each sub-folder contains pdf files. Total pdf files are nearly 2200. How can I extract page number 3 to 10 from all pdfs?
To extract the pages from one pdf, I am ...
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PDFTK, CODE128 and UTF-8
I'm used to fill PDF forms from PHP using PDFTK. Recently, I was asked to insert a code-128 barcode in a PDF. To do so, I created a PDF with several text fields for human-readable entries plus a ...
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How to merge a pdf file as a first page into many pdf files?
I have a creative commons license in one .pdf file, say license.pdf. I want to merge this license.pdf as a first page in another .pdf file. I can do it manually by the following command:
pdftk ...
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Translate the page numbers of internal links in a pdf link to?
I use pdftk to (extract and) merge some pdf files. One of the input pdf files has internal links within it, i.e. when clicking such links will jump to another position in the pdf file. But in the ...