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David King posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
I assume the "pdftk-all" port you are referring is pdftk-java by Marc Vinyals (https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk). You mention file pdftk-all.exe. Do you have a copy of this wrapper .exe for Windows? If so, have you tried renaming it to pdftk.exe and substituting it for the original pdftk.exe in your PDFTK Builder program folder to see if PDFTK Builder produces the desired output when calling it? See last paragraph below for results of my test. I downloaded the pdftk-all.jar (v3.3.3) from the pdftk-java...
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Your guess at how PDFTK Builder was performing 'Stamp first page only' is correct and was implemented in v3.0 (Apr 2007). I added support for multibackground/multistamp in v4.0 (Nov 2017) which fortuitously allowed the workaround you found of adding a second blank page. PDFtk does not have a function to generate a blank page which made having to add a blank page to single-page stamps a problem. Instead, I used 'dump_data' to save the bookmarks and metadata from the original file and reapplied them...
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Version 4.1.9 (15 Nov 2025) is a minor update of PdftkBuilder to fix a problem reported in user chrisemb's topic below regarding bookmarks (outlines) being deleted when a PDF was stamped with the 'Stamp first page only' option selected. This problem which affected the 'Stamp' and "Background' functions on the 'Mark Pages' tab had apparently managed to escape notice since those functions were implemented back in 2007 (v3.0). The problem did not appear if all pages of PDF were stamped - the default....
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Version 4.1.8 (6 May 2025) is a minor update that (1) fixes a recently reported problem with the 'Advanced' tool (on Tools tab, Set 4) and (2) deletes the empty temp working folder that was being left when the program was exited. FYI: PDFtk Builder is also available on PortableApps.com . That site accounts for 10X the number of downloads of PDFtk Builder than this project site. While PortableApps.com maintains their own website, their .paf.exe files are actually downloaded from a PortableApps project...
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Version 4.1.8 (6 May 2025) is a minor update that (1) fixes a recently reported problem with the 'Advanced' tool (on Tools tab, Set 4) and (2) deletes the empty temp working folder that was being left when the program was exited. FYI: PDFtk Builder is also available on PortableApps.com . That site accounts for 10X the number of downloads of PDFtk Builder than this project site. While PortableApps.com maintains their own website, their .paf.exe files are actually downloaded from a PortableApps project...
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You discovered a long-standing latent problem with the error-checking of the user-edited command template string in the 'Advanced' tool which caused valid 'multibackground' and 'multistamp' operations to be rejected (Error A04: No PDFtk operation found in template). The fix is simple and will be corrected in the next release. It is not necessary to resort to using the 'Advanced' tool to perform multibackground or multistamp operations. The Stamp and Background options on the 'Mark Pages' tab automatically...
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You discovered a long-standing latent problem with the error-checking of the user-edited command template string in the 'Advanced' tool which caused valid 'multibackground' and 'multistamp' operations to be rejected (Error A04: No PDFtk operation found in template). The fix is simple and will be corrected in the next release. It is not necessary to resort to using the 'Advanced' tool to perform multibackground or multistamp operations. The Stamp and Background options on the 'Mark Pages' tab automatically...
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I am releasing Version 4.1.7 today, 2 Dec 2024, on an expedited basis to fix a serious bug which I noticed just last week while giving a demo to a friend. The error occurs in prior releases of PDFTK Builder Enhanced when merging or interleaving the pages of two or more PDF documents and any file below the top file in the ‘Join Files” list has more than one page range entered in its Pages box. For those files, the first page range would be taken from the correct file, but additional page ranges would...
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I am releasing Version 4.1.7 today, 2 Dec 2024, on an expedited basis to fix a serious bug which I noticed just last week while giving a demo to a friend. The error occurs in prior releases of PDFTK Builder Enhanced when merging or interleaving the pages of two or more PDF documents and any file below the top file in the ‘Join Files” list has more than one page range entered in its Pages box. For those files, the first page range would be taken from the correct file, but additional page ranges would...
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I am releasing Version 4.1.7 today, 2 Dec 2024, on an expedited basis to fix a serious bug which I noticed just last week while giving a demo to a friend. The error occurs in prior releases of PDFTK Builder Enhanced when merging or interleaving the pages of two or more PDF documents and any file below the top file in the ‘Join Files” list has more than one page range entered in its Pages box. For those files, the first page range would be taken from the correct file, but additional page ranges would...
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To change the language: Right-click on the ruler. Select "About". At bottom of the displayed "About Screen Ruler" form, select the desired "Application Language" and then click "Apply".
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I assume that your request to make the "dialog box" resizable is specifically referring to the width of the file name column of the main form. I think the changes already implemented in v4 adequately handle the UI issues associated with long file names/paths --- see following explanation. In both the original (v3) and enhanced (v4) versions of PDFtk Builder, the main form is not resizable and the width of the columns in the source PDF file list are fixed. This simplifies the UI design and assures...
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PDFTK Builder Enhanced is just a GUI for the underlying PDFtk command line tool, PDFtk Server v2.02, which actually generates the PDF files. In general, I would expect the file sizes to be similar when splitting files, even though the Sejda PDF Java SDK underlying PDFsam Basic is actively maintained and marketed, while the last release of PDFtk Server was back in 2013. Since you did not furnish a copy of the original PDF file that you split, there is no way to determine why the file for the first...
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Version 4.1.6 (28 May 2021) is a minor update to PDFTK Builder Enhanced that adds a red indication on the Document Protection panel button when encryption of output PDFs is in effect. This indication is visible even when the Document Protection panel is collapsed. Encryption of output PDFs is set by entering one or both passwords. In general, encryption should be avoided since it complicates use/distribution of PDFs and compatibility with other PDF tools. Also note that the underlying PDFTK Server...
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Attached below is a copy of copyfiles.ps1, a Windows PowerShell script that I wrote to copy a list of files to a common destination directory with a 2-digit sequence number prefix added to each file name to maintain file order. This script can be used to populate the 'Join Files' window of PDFtk Builder Enhanced and any other PDF merge tool that supports drag and drop, with files from a list. The following are instructions on how to set up the script and use it. copyfiles.ps1: Copy the text of PowerShell...
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Attached below is a copy of copyfiles.ps1, a Windows PowerShell script that I wrote to copy a list of files to a common destination directory with a 2-digit sequence number prefix added to each file name to maintain file order. This script can be used to populate the 'Join Files' window of PDFtk Builder Enhanced and any other PDF merge tool that supports drag and drop, with files from a list. The following are instructions on how to set up the script and use it. copyfiles.ps1: Copy the text of PowerShell...
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Below is the text of copyfiles.ps1, a Windows PowerShell script that I wrote to copy a list of files to a common destination directory with a 2-digit sequence number prefix added to each file name to maintain file order. This script can be used to populate the 'Join Files' window of PDFtk Builder Enhanced and any other PDF merge tool that supports drag and drop, with files from a list. The following are instructions on how to set up the script and use it. copyfiles.ps1: Copy the text of PowerShell...
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If you need a free GUI PDF merge tool that directly supports loading PDF documents from a list (.txt file), I recommend you consider PDFsam Basic (pdfsam.org). It does exactly what you are asking for, even allowing the user to drag the .txt file containing the file list directly onto the window of its merge tool. The ability to accept an external list of files seems to be rare among PDF applications. To support reloading documents, most applications appear to favor internally generated recently used...
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libiconv2.dll is a GNU Win32 package used by pdftk.exe to convert character encodings in international environments. I have never had a need to use it with PDFtk but it is included in the download of PDFtk Server from the pdflabs.com web site and is also available from gnu.org. I have added a copy of the file to the download file PDftkBuilder-4.1.5-portable.zip. Download the .zip file again and copy the added libiconv2.dll file to your PDFtk Builder folder. Let me know if that resolves your prob...
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ADDENDUM: You can also do the following to determine whether the GUI is involved in the problem you are experiencing. The following will run the pdftk directly from the command line to execute a dump_data command without using the GUI. (1) Open your PDFtk Builder Enhanced folder in Windows Explorer. (2) Copy a PDF file which is giving you problems to the folder and rename the file: in.pdf. (3) Open a cmd prompt in the folder. Note: If you do not know how, create the following two-line text file with...
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I have never encountered such an error and an unable to reproduce it with the info provided. Your list of installed files looks OK though. Does this problem occur with the 'Dump' tool for all source PDFs or just specific PDF files? I downloaded a 277-page PDF of the Sidis manuscript shown in your screenshot from: http://www.mortenbrask.com/wp-content/uploads/The-tribes-and-the-states-SIDIS.pdf and was able to perform a dump of the PDF file on my system without a problem. Of course, I am not sure...
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I have never encountered such an error and an unable to reproduce it with the info provided. Your list of installed files looks OK though. Does this problem occur with the 'Dump' tool for all source PDFs or just specific PDF files? I downloaded a 277-page PDF of the Sidis manuscript shown in your screenshot from: http://www.mortenbrask.com/wp-content/uploads/The-tribes-and-the-states-SIDIS.pdf and was able to perform a dump of the PDF file on my system without a problem. Of course, I am not sure...
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I have never encountered such an error and an unable to reproduce it with the info provided. Your list of installed files looks OK though. Does this problem occur with the 'Dump' tool for all source PDFs or just specific PDF files? I downloaded a 277-page PDF of the Sidis manuscript shown in your screenshot from: http://www.mortenbrask.com/wp-content/uploads/The-tribes-and-the-states-SIDIS.pdf and was able to perform a dump of the PDF file on my system without a problem. Of course, I am not sure...
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