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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.