Free pdf tools 1.3 software for linux

PDFUtil is a service menu entry that allows rotate and other interesting utilities for pdf files.

PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
Main features:
- PDF to text extraction
- Merge PDF Documents
- PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
- Lucene Search Engine Integration
- Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
- Create a PDF from a text file
- Create images from PDF pages
- Print a PDF
Enhancements:
- This release contains significant bugfixes and an overhaul of the encryption framework.

pdfTeX is an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF.
When PDF output is not selected, pdfTeX produces normal DVI output, otherwise it produces PDF output that looks identical to the DVI output.
An important aspect of pdfTeX project is to investigate alternative justification algorithms, optionally making use of multiple master fonts.
Enhancements:
- This includes xpdf 3.02pl1, fixing some security problems.

PDFKreator is an easy to use KDE tool for creating PDF documents out of a bunch of image files. It heavily uses ImageMagicks convert tool, tiff2ps and ps2pdf.

PDF::Reuse is a Perl module that can reuse and mass produce PDF documents.

SYNOPSIS

use PDF::Reuse;
prFile(myFile.pdf);
prText(100, 500, Hello World !);
prEnd();

This module could be used when you want to mass produce similar (but not identical) PDF documents and reuse templates, JavaScripts and some other components. It is functional to be fast, and to give your programs capacity to produce many pages per second and very big PDF documents if necessary.

The module produces PDF-1.4 files. Some features of PDF-1.5, like "object streams" and "cross reference streams", are supported, but only at an experimental level. More testing is needed. (If you get problems with a new document from Acrobat 6 or 7, try to save it or recreate it as a PDF-1.4 document first, before using it together with this module.)

Templates

Use your favorite program, probably a commercial visual tool, to produce single PDF-files to be used as templates, and then use this module to mass produce files from them.

(If you want small PDF-files or want special graphics, you can use this module also, but visual tools are often most practical.)

Lists

The module uses "XObjects" extensively. This is a format that makes it possible create big lists, which are compact at the same time.

PDF-operators

The module gives you a good possibility to program at a "low level" with the basic graphic operators of PDF, if that is what you want to do. You can build your own libraries of low level routines, with PDF-directives "controlled" by Perl.

Archive-format

If you want, you get your new documents logged in a format suitable for archiving or transfer.

PDF::Reuse::Tutorial might show you best what you can do with this module.

JavaScript

You can attach JavaScripts to your PDF-files.

You can have libraries of JavaScripts. No cutting or pasting, and those who include the scripts in documents only need to know how to initiate them. (Of course those who write the scripts have to know Acrobat JavaScript well.)

GL2PS is an OpenGL to PostScript printing library.
GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application. The main difference between GL2PS and other similar libraries (see section 7) is the use of sorting algorithms capable of handling intersecting and stretched polygons, as well as non manifold objects. GL2PS provides advanced smooth shading and text rendering, culling of invisible primitives, mixed vector/bitmap output, and much more...
GL2PS can currently create PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, as well as LATEX files for the text fragments. GL2PS also provides limited, experiemental support for Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) and Portable LaTeX Graphics (PGF) formats.
Adding new vector output formats should be relatively easy; meanwhile, you can use the excellent pstoedit program to transform the PostScript files generated by GL2PS into many other vector formats such as xfig, cgm, wmf, etc.
Enhancements:
- This release adds full support for SVG, improved line stippling, sorting of text and bitmap elements, and a new interface for printing device-specific strings in the output stream.

jpg2pdf PRO is the PRO version of jpg2pdf. jpg2pdf PRO offers you all the features of jpg2pdf 2.x plus these important features: convert every single jpeg to a single pdf (with -album to create a unique PDF) jpg2pdf PRO can automatic detect is the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf. jpg2pdf PRO can automatic check if the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf or pdf album.
NOTE: jpg2pdf PRO tries to detect if the cmyk image is made by Adobe Photoshop and will use inverted colours to create the pdf (it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as youd expect)
Main features:
- convert every single jpeg to a single pdf, to put every jpeg in a pdf album, like normal jpg2pdf, you can use the option -album
- jpg2pdf PRO can automatic detect is the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf. Note: jpg2pdf PRO tries to detect if the cmyk image is made by Adobe Photoshop and will use inverted colours to create the pdf (it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as youd expect)
- center parameter will center evary jpeg image in the final pdf page
- Using image parameter (to set the paper format of the pdf page equal to the image) is possible to use border parameter to set a border around the image
- Its possible to set a directory where to put the pdfs (pdfdir) and the jpegs (jpgdir)
- Its possible to re-run infinitely jpg2pdf setting the wait seconds