cpdf-binaries
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PDF Command Line Tools binaries for Linux, Mac, Windows.
For non-commercial use only. See the file LICENSE for details. For commercial use, a license must be purchased from http://www.coherentpdf.com.
It prints a little message to stderr about the non-commercial license, and sets the Producer to cpdf.
Functionality
- Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
- Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
- Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit.
- Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
- Stamp logos, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
- Embed TrueType fonts when adding text
- Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
- Make PDF-based presentations
- Put multiple pages on a single page
- List, copy, set, or remove annotations
- Read and set document information and metadata
- Add and remove file attachments to document or page.
- Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
- Reconstruct malformed files
- Detect missing fonts, low resolution images
- Export and import PDF files in JSON format
- Build table of contents
- Convert text to PDF
- Draw on PDF files with graphics and text
Documentation
PDF Manual:
http://www.coherentpdf.com/cpdfmanual.pdf
Examples:
http://www.coherentpdf.com/usage-examples.html
Website:
To Install
The program cpdf (or cpdf.exe for Windows) is a single executable with no dependencies. Copy it to somewhere suitable on your platform.
The last version of cpdf compatible with Windows XP is v2.2.1.
MacOS: The executable is codesigned, but not notarized. If it refuses to run the first time, go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General and click "Allow anyway". Instructions:
https://www.coherentpdf.com/mac.html
C/C++/Python/.NET/Java API
An API version of these tools is available:
C/C++ source: https://github.com/johnwhitington/cpdflib-source
C/C++ binaries: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary
Python: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf
Java: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/jcpdf
.NET: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/dotnet-libcpdf
Coherentpdf.js
A JavaScript implementation for node and the browser is available:
https://github.com/coherentgraphics/coherentpdf.js
Support
Raise an issue in this github repository, or email contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk