{"id":1716,"date":"2011-06-08T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2011\/06\/08\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:07:44","slug":"pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2011\/06\/08\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"pdftk &#8211; The PDF Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/\">http:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/docs\/pdftk-man-page\/<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596006556\/\">http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596006556\/<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 &#8220;PDF Hacks&#8221; (the book&#8217;s author is pdflab&#8217;s director and founder)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Superimpose Pages with pdftk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/\">pdftk<\/a> packs iText\u2019s power into a standalone program. Apply a single PDF page to the background of an entire document like so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>pdftk <i>mydoc.pdf<\/i> output <i>mydoc.marked.pdf<\/i> background <i>watermark.pdf<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/\">pdftk<\/a> will use the first page of watermark.pdf, if it has more than one page. You can combine this background option with additional input operations (such as assembling PDFs [Hack#51]) and other output options (such as encryption [Hack #52]).\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/ https:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/docs\/pdftk-man-page\/ http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596006556\/\u00a0\u2013 &#8220;PDF Hacks&#8221; (the book&#8217;s author is pdflab&#8217;s director and founder) Superimpose Pages with pdftk pdftk packs iText\u2019s power into a standalone program. Apply a single PDF page to the background of an entire document like so: pdftk mydoc.pdf output mydoc.marked.pdf background watermark.pdf pdftk will use the first page of watermark.pdf, if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[423,426,666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdf","category-pdftk","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-rG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}