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From: Andrew on 23 Jun 2010 03:27 Hi All, I am investigating the chance of PDF merging on our Linux server using PDFTK, and I was wondering if someone could help me. I have searched on the server for it (with no luck): find / -name "pdftk*" -print I have tried following the info on http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ but it seems to work and then when I try any of the following, I get nothing: pdftk man pdftk and the find statement only finds the rpm file or the tar.gz file. I am not sure how to check the versions of the compilers required, or what dependencies are needed beforehand. Our server's details: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) VERSION = 9 PATCHLEVEL = 3 Any help will be greatly appreciated. Also, if I have posted this in the wrong group I would appreciate info on where to post. Regards, Andrew.
From: mjt on 23 Jun 2010 10:56 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Andrew <andrew(a)delta-link.com.au> wrote: > I have searched on the server for it (with no luck): find / -name > "pdftk*" -print > > I have tried following the info on http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ but > it seems to work and then when I try any of the following, I get > nothing: "it seems to work ... I get nothing" What does "seems to work" mean?. I would think either something works or it doesn't. > pdftk > man pdftk > and the find statement only finds the rpm file or the tar.gz file. If it only finds the rpm and tar file, then that's all you have (I assume). Have you attempted to install the product via the RPM (or tar.gz)? If the product is not installed, it's obvious the binary won't run or the man page will not be displayed. Did you download both the rpm and tar file from accesspdf? Which version did you download?. Your best bet is to download the most current source package, then build and install it. One caveat though ... the latest version of pdftk is 1.41, released in Nov 2006 - that's pretty old when you consider the changes that might have happened to PDF from Adobe. My guess would be that any [minor] changes to the PDF file structure will not be readable by 'pdftk'. -- While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Andrew on 24 Jun 2010 03:48 Sorry about that... I followed the info on the http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ website - with regards to downloading and installing of the rpm package and I also tried the "make" commands. The command: "rpmbuild --rebuild pdftk-1.12-0.src.rpm" seemed to run without error, but I was not able to find any binary file called: pdftk I did try all the rpm packages and source packages. I think my problem might be the libraries... Not sure have to proceed in that respect, especially when I got no errors from the rpm command. If you have know of a program that is more current than pdftk - for SuSE 9 - that can perform a command line PDF Form merge, then I am all ears.
From: mjt on 24 Jun 2010 05:54 On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Andrew <andrew(a)delta-link.com.au> wrote: [snipped] > If you have know of a program that is more current than pdftk > for SuSE 9 - that can perform a command line PDF Form merge, > then I am all ears. Unfortunately, I haven't had the occasion to work that extensively with PDFs, but I did a quick search ... I'm sure you've already come across these tools: http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8229-putting-together-pdf-files http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/pdf/Merge.html http://www.pdfsam.org/ http://pdfbox.apache.org/ I ran the search using the dedicated "Linux" page at Google: http://www.google.com/linux using, "pdf merge" (no quotes) as the search term: http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=pdf+merge&btnG=Search When I have some time later this morning, I'll take a shot at 'pdftk' under openSUSE 11.2 -- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: mjt on 24 Jun 2010 10:23
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Andrew <andrew(a)delta-link.com.au> wrote: > I followed the info on the http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ website - > with regards to downloading and installing of the rpm package and I > also tried the "make" commands. > > The command: "rpmbuild --rebuild pdftk-1.12-0.src.rpm" seemed to > run without error, but I was not able to find any binary file The rebuild option will generate a binary rpm file, which is then used to install the binaries/etc (i.e., it does NOT do a binary install as a final step). If you've attempted to install the other rpms, specifically the binary versions, then possibly the executable file does not reside in the path? I installed the version from the openSUSE 10.3 repository ... the executable installed to /usr/bin, which is a standard executable subdir in the path, which I am certain is where it installed to on your system, provided the rpm install was successful. My suggestion is to download the source tarball and build it and install it (I'd build it to a binary RPM file to facilitate easy package installation): http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/pdftk-1.41.tar.gz -- All power corrupts, but we need electricity. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |