On 01/23/2012 10:14 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
David C. Rankin said the following on 01/23/2012 10:59 AM:
You have hit on a very longstanding complaint and are correct pdftk has no gui at all.
Oh? http://www.paehl.de/pdf/gui_pdftk.html http://suslic-2012.narod.ru/PDFTkGUI.html
There's also http://pdftk4all.sourceforge.net/ http://angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder but you may not care to use those :-)
Thanks Anton, The issue I see is those that just want pdftk and don't want a gui shouldn't have to install 200MB of gui just to get pdftk. The pdftk tool is very useful in fax backends, etc. in compiling documents from various sources into a finished pdf. (i.e. compiling the output of multiple postscripts via pstopdf into a single pdf for fax or storage, etc..) The pdftk_guis are fine if you want to do it manually, but for basic processing by script, the gui should be required at all. By itself, pdftk is quite an amazing backend tool. (see pdftk --help) Why it (a command line tool) should be saddled with the requirement of pulling in a large number of gui related files just doesn't make much sense. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org