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disciple · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2018, 02:12 Post subject: attach files to a pdf

If you are interested in "pdf portfolios" i.e. pdfs with attached files, pdfdetach can extract them. But mutool can do that and also attach them in the first place.

mutool does several other useful things - I haven't used it extensively, but I assume it is good as it is a brother of mupdf.

disciple · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2018, 02:17 Post subject:

Origami-pdf is another tool that may be worth mentioning, although it is in ruby, and I'm not sure if it is currently being developed anywhere:

disciple · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2018, 01:21 Post subject:

Since I'm recording my most important knowledge about pdfs in this thread:

Qpdf is the best option if you need to remove restrictions (e.g. can't print, can't edit, or can't copy text) from pdfs, which in most cases doesn't require a password. N.B. this doesn't help if you have a pdf where the text has not been encoding according to the standard characterset (which was a problem using the old "cups-pdf" virtual printer in Puppy i.e. copied text was gibberish because the characters in the pdf had all been randomly remapped).

disciple · Posted: Sun 11 Nov 2018, 19:56 Post subject:

Pdfshuffler users may want to note that the version some have treated as an unofficial upstream has now forked as pdfarranger, I guess because there has been a little activity on the original upstream lately.

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2019, 05:24 Post subject: Re: attach files to a pdf

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2019, 05:51 Post subject:

Some PDFs have named pages i.e. if you open them in some viewers (e.g. Adobe's) instead of displaying the logical page number they display a number in a different format (perhaps i, ii, iii... in the preface and 1, 2, 3 in the main body of the document), and/or some other text.

I spent quite some time looking for tools which can handle this. I have now discovered that these are called "page labels", and sejda has a tool to apply them to a pdf. I'm not sure if there are any free tools which preserve page labels (e.g. when splitting or merging pdfs), or can list the labels of pages in a pdf. Apparently poppler has supported page labels for a very long time, but tools like pdfunite don't seem to preserve them...

A document can contain more than one page with the same label, which I guess complicates things, and I think rather than being attached to individual pages, they are defined as a kind of metadata that says "starting from this logical page, number using this format".

What I would really like is a way to create bookmarks matching the page labels, and vice versa, and to split a document based on page labels, or the page label prefix.

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2019, 06:22 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2019, 06:29 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Wed 31 Jul 2019, 08:02 Post subject:

It looks like the latest alternative to pdfmod, pdfshuffler etc is pdfslicer.
It uses gtkmm3 Sad

The backend is qpdf, so I imagine it will do the best job at handling the most pdfs.

disciple · Posted: Mon 05 Aug 2019, 02:30 Post subject:

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1571 Location: Drøbak, Norway

disciple · Posted: Thu 08 Aug 2019, 23:36 Post subject:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you misunderstand what I was asking.
Pdf viewers commonly allow you to configure defaults for the viewer, and it sounds like that is what you're describing i.e. it affects every pdf you open in that viewer. I am talking about the settings in the actual pdf i.e. if I change them using sejda or flexipdf and send the file to someone else, it affects how the file opens in their viewer, assuming their viewer is set up to respect the settings.

disciple · Posted: Thu 08 Aug 2019, 23:42 Post subject:

Another couple of tools along similar lines as something like pdfsam (although less mature) i.e. non-wysiwyg gui utilities:

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/pdftricks (vala/gtk3/ghostscript)
https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/pdfmixtool (c++/qt5/podofo, although looking at qpdf now)

tallboy · Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1571 Location: Drøbak, Norway

disciple · Posted: Mon 26 Aug 2019, 07:57 Post subject: Re: attach files to a pdf