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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

PDFtk - One App to Collate, Split, Rotate and Watermark PDFs

MakeUseOf.com: "While looking for some portable apps to add to my USB drive I came across really cool utility for working with PDF files. The app is called PDFTK Builder. It’s a standalone program (so you can carry it around on your USB driver) that allows you to:
- Merge multiple PDF files into one
- Insert certain pages from one PDF into another
- Rearrange, delete pages, rotate pages within the PDF
- Split single PDF document into multiple files
- Password protect PDF document
- Disable Priting functionality and more
For the most part the program is fairly intuitive, simply select the input PDF docs, choose desired action and click on save button. Though some other features like rearranging pages within the document or merging a part of one document with the other require brief illustration."

2 comments:

aquacompass said...

This sounds like a really useful app. All too often does manipulating PDFs become a hassle, especially on the go. This sounds like a great tool when CS3s version of acrobat can take forever to load sometimes.

Perhaps when they devise a version that will work on the iPhone.......

This idea of mini apps is intriguing all together. The widgets that Apple has in their Dashboard feature seem to have caught on well with Mac users. Perhaps we are moving towards a harmony between these full fledged apps and their bigger brothers.

Ethan Weil said...

This seems like a useful app to have around. PDF's are often convenient as a least-common-denominator. Props go to the developer, and also to Adobe for opening up their format via ISO and less restrictive patenting. Many people were hoping The new Microsoft OOXML standards would be like this, but there continues to be legal concerns about them.