Coherent PDF Command Line Toolkit is an application that will give you a wide range of professional, robust tools to modify PDF files manually from the command line, from scripts or within programs.
They are based on PDF technology developed by Coherent Graphics Ltdand they come with a comprehensive 48-page manual.
Here are some key features of "Coherent PDF Command Line Toolkit":
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).
· Shift the contents of a page (e.g to change the margins).
· Rotate a page, in abcolute 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.
Multipage facilities:
· Put mutiple 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:
· 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.
· Make draft documents (remove pictures).
· Garbage collection of PDF files.
· Change PDF version number.
· Copy unique IDs from one file to another.
Limitations:
· All PDF files produced or modified have the word "DEMO" placed over their pages.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Now add any font to PDF file for text stamping, perform multiple operations from single command line, scale to fit, speed increases.