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PDFTK4All version 0.1.1.8 BETA released

I am very pleased to announce the first public release of PDFTK4All - A Graphical User Interface to pdftk.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is widely accepted on the Internet in
communication between different parties. Books, papers, technical drawings,
PDF is capable of handling them all. In order to make PDF a success, free
(and very good) viewers are available. And some of these are even open source.
Strangely enough, there is still not a good and free (open source) PDF Editor,
like Adobe's Acrobat, to merge, split and annotate PDF files.

This is where pdftk comes in. Pdftk is a small, open source command line
utility, available at http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
It's a very versatile toolkit (tk) and allows one to edit PDF files in several
ways: catenate (join, extract), split, rotate, stamp, encrypt, fill forms etc.

The fact that pdftk is a command line application allows people to batch process
large number of PDF files. But it's also a major drawback to allow an
introduction of pdftk to a bigger audience.

Pdftk4all is a GUI to pdftk. It allows common users to quickly use the most
standard PDF edit tasks (rotate, join, etc), while advanced users benefit
from pdftk4all in having a utility to fill pdf forms and extract data from forms.

Posted by Maarten Veerman 2007-02-23

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