If pdf is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic stapler-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and x-ray-glasses. pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with pdf documents. keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:
- merge pdf documents
- split pdf pages into a new document
- decrypt input as necessary (password required)
- encrypt output as desired
- fill pdf forms with fdf data and/or flatten forms
- apply a background watermark
- report pdf on metrics, including metadata and bookmarks
- update pdf metadata
- attach files to pdf pages or the pdf document
- unpack pdf attachments
- burst a pdf document into single pages
- uncompress and re-compress page streams
- repair corrupted pdf (where possible)
this package contains the debugging symbols for the pdftk package.