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I have compiled some command line applications based on mupdf.

1) pdfdraw

Rendering tool to convert a PDF file to a series of image files.

2) pdfclean

Tool to rewrite PDF files. Can be used to repair, decrypt, and decompress PDF files.

3) pdfextract 4) pdfinfo 5) pdfshow

Debugging tools to show internal objects, extract fonts and images, and display information about resources in a PDF file.

6) xpsdraw

Same as pdfdraw, just for xps files.

Submitted On:

26 Aug 2011

Submitted By:

ciprian nedisan (cipri)

Submitted On:

28 Aug 2011

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4,670.47 Kb

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0.1

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ciprian nedisan

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Comments

0 # RE: PDF Tools — lukoie 2011-08-26 15:30

and what are they? what does they do? do we need them? any screenshots?

0 # RE: PDF Tools — cipri 2011-08-26 16:07

you can use the option -h for a little help, but it's better to search with google how they work.

For example with pdfdraw you can make photos of the pdf pages and you can choose how to manipulate it. For example you can choose to convet to grayscale, to rotate and so on.

Some of applications are just of analyzing pdf files, that means they are not really useful for normal users.

0 # RE: PDF Tools — lukoie 2011-08-27 15:39

mate...don't you think its worth to note it on this particular download page what are those applications? So one wouldnt google what the heck are they, and if he needs it.

0 # RE: RE: PDF Tools — cipri 2011-08-27 16:49

Ok. I added now some information.

0 # RE: PDF Tools — lukoie 2011-08-27 18:04

ah, cool
thanx mate!

0 # RE: PDF Tools — phoudoin 2011-09-01 05:56

hint: pdfdraw will make an handy PDF to image translator add-on, which will allow thumbnail in softwares like Album...

Just an idea.

0 # RE: RE: PDF Tools — cipri 2011-09-01 09:38

Quoting phoudoin:

hint: pdfdraw will make an handy PDF to image translator add-on, which will allow thumbnail in softwares like Album...

Just an idea.

To
I will later ask on mailing list, if the devs want to incl baude libmupdf into the base system. It would bring a lot of benefits. The pdfviewer would be a little application, and the pdf to image translator could be easily based on that. Mupdf depends just on a few libraries, so I guess it could be a good idea to integrate it into the base system, but i'm not yet sure if that idea will be welcome

0 # RE: RE: RE: PDF Tools — phoudoin 2011-09-01 09:53

Do you plan to use the image renderer of muPDF or to implement a fliz's device backend to draw using native (BView) API?

What I also wonder is if muPDF could be used to implement PDF 1.7 support in PDF Writer print driver. But I didn't look deep enough to see if the *create PDF* part support this needs.

Regarding having a libmupdf, I guess that an easy package dependency feature, and both a PDF / XPS translator and a PDF Viewer could comes as a package depending on it.

I think that having a smaller (in memory size) and faster (both startup and rendering) PDF viewer will receive a warm welcome by Haiku devs, and dropping BePDF in favor of three optional packages should not be a real issue.

So, now, write us a fine PDF Viewer ;-)