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== Free software tools that work with PDF == | == Free software tools that work with PDF == | ||
Revision as of 15:06, 1 November 2020
A proprietary format owned by Adobe until 2008, when it was released and relicensed as an ISO standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format
- https://planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/warnock_camelot.pdf
Free software tools that work with PDF
Thanks to the Ghostscript project, there are many free software tools that work with postscript.
- pdftk
- poppler
- Scribus
- Imagemagick
Cookbook
apt-get install poppler-utils
pdftocairo -png mydoc.pdf
Creates a series of PNG files.
Python tools to manipulate / generate PDF
Examples
An example using reportlab (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2252726/how-to-create-pdf-files-in-python)
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
from reportlab.lib.units import inch, cm
c = canvas.Canvas('ex.pdf')
c.drawImage('ar.jpg', 0, 0, 10*cm, 10*cm)
c.showPage()
c.save()