XPost: comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: MikeS@fred.com   
      
   On 28/08/2025 23:16, Marion wrote:   
   > What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?   
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   > [x] Print booklet format (pdfbook, pdfbooklet, enbooken, acrobat reader)   
   > [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)   
   > [x] Add signature (Adobe Reader Fill-and-sign sign-yourself tool)   
   > [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)   
   > [x] Compress PDFs (ImageMagick, PDFgear, rlvision)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to MSOffice (PDFgear, Calibre for MS Word only)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to MSWord (Calibre, PDFgear)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to epub format (Calibre)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to PostScript (Calibre, Poppler)   
   > [x] Converts PDFs to HTML (poppler)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to raster (Imagemagick,GhostScript,Poppler-pdftocairo)   
   > [x] Convert PDF to vector (Inkscape, Poppler-pdftocairo)   
   > [x] Converts PDFs to PPM/PGM/PBM image formats (poppler)   
   > [x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
   > [x] Minor text editing (Adobe Reader commenting, PDF-XChange Editor)   
   > [x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)   
   > [x] Embeds files into a PDF as attachments (poppler)   
   > [x] Extract images (PDFExchangeEditor, PDF Shaper, PDFgear, poppler, muPDF)   
   > [x] Extract text (poppler) or mine textual & metadata (pdfminersix)   
   > [x] Extracts embedded files (attachments) from a PDF (poppler)   
   > [x] Fastest PDF readers (Sumatra or Foxit)   
   > [x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)   
   > [x] List fonts used in a PDF (poppler)   
   > [x] Metadata display on command line (poppler)   
   > [x] Metadata removal (LibreOffice Writer, PDFgear offline)   
   > [x] OCR, PDF-Xchange, freeOCR (paperfile.net), GOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net)   
   > [x] Offline encrypt PDF with a password (pdfencrypt)   
   > [x] Online shrink PDF    
   > [x] PDF text to audio file (Balabolka)   
   > [x] Delete pages (pdfsam, pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)   
   > [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)   
   > [x] Reorder pages (pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)   
   > [x] Rotate pages (pdftk, mutool, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)   
   > [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript,Ghostview,ps2edit,pdfwrite,pdf2djvu)   
   > [x] Separates a PDF into individual pages (poppler)   
   > [x] Split PDFs (PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript)   
   > [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk, PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript)   
   > [x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)   
   > [x] Redact sensitive information (PDF-Xchange Editor, Adobe Acrobat Pro)   
   > [x] Add watermarks or background layers (pdftk, PDFgear, PDFsam)   
   > [x] Add bookmarks/TOC (jpdfbookmarks, LaTeX(hyperref), PDF-ExchangeEditor   
   > [x] Flatten form fields (Ghostscript, Acrobat Pro)   
   > [x] Embed audio/video into PDFs (Acrobat Pro, LaTeX (media9 package)   
   > [x] Generate PDF from Markdown or HTML (Pandoc, wkhtmltopdf)   
   > [x] Create fillable forms (LibreOffice Draw, Scribus, LaTeX (AcroTeX))   
   > [x] Batch rename, convert, split, etc. (PDFsam, Poppler, Ghostscript)   
   > [x] Extract annotations/comments (PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat)   
   > [x] Convert to OCR (Tesseract OCR, PDF-Xchange, ABBYY FineReader)   
   > [x] Add hyperlinks/clickable buttons (LibreOffice,LaTeX,PDF-XChange Editor)   
   > [x] Compare two PDFs side-by-side (DiffPDF, Acrobat Pro)   
   > [x] Digitally sign with certificate-based signature (Foxit PDF Editor)   
   > [x] Free PDF samples   
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   > [?] What other tasks do you do to edit or modify a PDF file?   
      
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