Coherent PDF Command Line Tools
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Professional command line tools for manipulating PDF files. Split, merge, linearize, scale, rotate, crop, encrypt, decrypt, watermark, bookmark, annotate, attach, impose etc. Full manual provided. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
Feature highlights:
General features
* Apply most operations to just selected page ranges of input files
* Decrypt on-the-fly when an input file is encrypted
* Use standard input and standard output to chain commands together
* Keep or change PDF File IDs
* Use a control file for parameters instead of the command line
* Linearize for fast web view on any operation
* Call from programs with full error handling
Merging and splitting
* Merge several PDF files into one, keeping bookmarks
* Split a PDF file into several chunks of a give size, keeping relevant bookmarks
* Split a PDF file at bookmark boundaries (chapter, section etc)
Page operations
* Scale pages (e.g from one paper size to another)
* Scale pages to fit
* Shift the contents of a page (e.g to change the margins)
* Rotate a page, in absolute or relative terms
* Flip a page horizontally or vertically
* Crop pages, or remove cropping
* Set a page's media box
Encrypt and decrypt PDF files using 40 bit, 128 bit or AES security
Compress and Decompress the streams in a PDF file
Bookmarks
* List the bookmarks in a file
* Remove the bookmarks from a file
* Add bookmarks to a file
Make PDF-based presentations with transition effects
* Logos, watermarks and stamps
* Stamp a page over or under the pages of a file
* Combine the pages of two files by combining the individual pages
* Add text, page numbers, or bates numbers to a page in different fonts, colors and sizes
* Add multiline text.
* Stamps can automatically appear on the shorter side of the page.
* Multipage facilities
* Put multiple pages on one page (n-up)
* Insert blank pages
Annotations
* List annotations
* Copy annotations from one file to another
* Remove annotations from a file
Document information and metadata
* Count pages
* List page info
* List fonts
* Read document info
* Set title, author etc.
* Set page layout, page mode and Acrobat display options
* Read, delete and set metadata
* Add and remove file attachments, including other PDFs
Miscellaneous
* Thicken hairlines
* Blacken text, fills or lines
* Make draft documents (remove pictures)
* Garbage collection of PDF files
* Change PDF version number
* Copy unique IDs from one file to another
The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is GBP195.00, you can free download and get a free trial.

