Free pdf tools all in one software for linux

PDF Toolkit is a simple servicemenu for PDF files.
Main features:
- give master password
- give user password
- allow only printing
- watermark
- extract a range of pages
- join PDF files

PDF Split and Merge project is an easy-to-use tool that provides functions to split and merge PDF files or subsections of them.

kpdfimagestool is a service menu which allows you to:

- Extract images from a pdf file in jpeg or ppm/pbm format

In ppm/pbm it is:

- PBM for monochrome images
- PPM for non-monochrome images

PDF Download is an extension which allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file on a website.

Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!

PDF::Reuse::Tutorial is a Perl module that will teach you how to produce PDF-files with PDF::Reuse.

In this tutorial I will show some aspects of PDF::Reuse, so you should be able to use it in your own programs. Most important is how to produce and reuse PDF-code, and then if you are interested, you can look at Graphics and JavaScript, so you can to do special things.

Reusing code:

You can take advantage of what has been done before, it is not necessary to start from scratch every time you create a PDF-file. You use old PDF-files as a source for forms, images, fonts and texts. The components are taken as they are, or rearranged, and you add your own texts and you produce new output.
If you dont care too much about the size of your templates, you should make them with a commercial, visual tool, thats most practical; and then you should use PDF::Reuse to mass produce your files. In this tutorial I show in many places how create single files with PDF::Reuse. That is possible, but more of an exception. I do it here to show the technique. You will anyway need it to add texts and graphics to your templates.

Graphics:

With this module you get a good possibility to program directly with the basic graphic operators of PDF. This is perhaps an advanced level, and you can avoid it if you want. On the other hand, it is not very difficult, and if you take advantage of it, your possibilities to manage text and graphics increase very much. You should look at the "PDF-reference manual" which probably is possible to download from http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html. Look especially at chapter 4 and 5, Graphics and Text, and the Operator summary.
Whenever the function prAdd() is used in this tutorial, you can probably get more explanations in the "PDF-reference manual". The code, you add to the content stream with prAdd(), has to follow the PDF syntax completely.

JavaScript:

You can add JavaScript to your PDF-file programmatically. This works with Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 or Acrobat 5.0 and higher versions.

You should have the "Acrobat JavaScript Object Specification" by hand. If you havent got Acrobat, you can probably download it from http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html. It is technical note # 5186. JavaScript for HTML and PDF differs so much that you need the manual, even if you know JavaScript very well.

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::FromHTML::Twig is a Perl module with PDF::FromHTML guts.

SYNOPSIS

(internal use only)

No user-serviceable parts inside.

PDF::FromHTML is a Perl module to convert HTML documents to PDF.

SYNOPSIS

my $pdf = PDF::FromHTML->new( encoding => utf-8 );
$pdf->load_file(source.html);
$pdf->convert(
Font => /path/to/font.ttf,
LineHeight => 10,
Landscape => 1,
);
$pdf->write_file(target.pdf);

This module transforms HTML into PDF, using an assortment of XML transformations implemented in PDF::FromHTML::Twig.

There is also a command-line utility, html2pdf.pl, that comes with this distribution.