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What other tasks do you do other than create pointless posts on usenet?

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On 28/08/2025 23:16, Marion wrote:
> What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?
> 
> [x] Print booklet format (pdfbook, pdfbooklet, enbooken, acrobat reader)
> [x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk, acrobat payware)
> [x] Add signature (Adobe Reader Fill-and-sign sign-yourself tool)
> [x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf, Acrobat payware,fastone scroll capture)
> [x] Compress PDFs (ImageMagick, PDFgear, rlvision)
> [x] Convert PDF to MSOffice (PDFgear, Calibre for MS Word only)
> [x] Convert PDF to MSWord (Calibre, PDFgear)
> [x] Convert PDF to epub format (Calibre)
> [x] Convert PDF to PostScript (Calibre, Poppler)
> [x] Converts PDFs to HTML (poppler)
> [x] Convert PDF to raster (Imagemagick,GhostScript,Poppler-pdftocairo)
> [x] Convert PDF to vector (Inkscape, Poppler-pdftocairo)
> [x] Converts PDFs to PPM/PGM/PBM image formats (poppler)
> [x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)
> [x] Minor text editing (Adobe Reader commenting, PDF-XChange Editor)
> [x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)
> [x] Embeds files into a PDF as attachments (poppler)
> [x] Extract images (PDFExchangeEditor, PDF Shaper, PDFgear, poppler, muPDF)
> [x] Extract text (poppler) or mine textual & metadata (pdfminersix)
> [x] Extracts embedded files (attachments) from a PDF (poppler)
> [x] Fastest PDF readers (Sumatra or Foxit)
> [x] Globally search & replace PDF text (Libre Office)
> [x] List fonts used in a PDF (poppler)
> [x] Metadata display on command line (poppler)
> [x] Metadata removal (LibreOffice Writer, PDFgear offline)
> [x] OCR, PDF-Xchange, freeOCR (paperfile.net), GOCR (jocr.sourceforge.net)
> [x] Offline encrypt PDF with a password (pdfencrypt)
> [x] Online shrink PDF <adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html>
> [x] PDF text to audio file (Balabolka)
> [x] Delete pages (pdfsam, pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
> [x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader)
> [x] Reorder pages (pdftk, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
> [x] Rotate pages (pdftk, mutool, PDF-XChange Editor, PDF Arranger)
> [x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript,Ghostview,ps2edit,pdfwrite,pdf2djvu)
> [x] Separates a PDF into individual pages (poppler)
> [x] Split PDFs (PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript)
> [x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam, pdftk, PDFgear, Poppler, Ghostscript)
> [x] Tile PDFs (i.e., to print large posters) (Posterazor)
> [x] Redact sensitive information (PDF-Xchange Editor, Adobe Acrobat Pro)
> [x] Add watermarks or background layers (pdftk, PDFgear, PDFsam)
> [x] Add bookmarks/TOC (jpdfbookmarks, LaTeX(hyperref), PDF-ExchangeEditor
> [x] Flatten form fields (Ghostscript, Acrobat Pro)
> [x] Embed audio/video into PDFs (Acrobat Pro, LaTeX (media9 package)
> [x] Generate PDF from Markdown or HTML (Pandoc, wkhtmltopdf)
> [x] Create fillable forms (LibreOffice Draw, Scribus, LaTeX (AcroTeX))
> [x] Batch rename, convert, split, etc. (PDFsam, Poppler, Ghostscript)
> [x] Extract annotations/comments (PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Acrobat)
> [x] Convert to OCR (Tesseract OCR, PDF-Xchange, ABBYY FineReader)
> [x] Add hyperlinks/clickable buttons (LibreOffice,LaTeX,PDF-XChange Editor)
> [x] Compare two PDFs side-by-side (DiffPDF, Acrobat Pro)
> [x] Digitally sign with certificate-based signature (Foxit PDF Editor)
> [x] Free PDF samples
>      <https://examplefile.com/document/pdf>
>      <https://onlinetestcase.com/pdf-file/>
>      <https://sample-files.com/documents/pdf/>
>      <https://graydart.com/sample/documents/pdf>
>      <https://freetestdata.com/document-files/pdf/>
>      <https://getsamplefiles.com/sample-document-files/pdf>
>      <https://learningcontainer.com/sample-pdf-files-for-testing/>
> [?] What other tasks do you do to edit or modify a PDF file?

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What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-28 22:16 +0000
  What other tasks do you do other than create pointless posts on usenet? MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> - 2025-08-29 20:22 +0100
  Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-29 23:47 +0000
  Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.org> - 2025-08-31 06:40 +0000
    Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Shadow <Sh@dowbr.invalid> - 2025-08-31 08:51 -0300
      Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-08-31 20:46 +0700
        Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Anthk GM <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-05-23 08:20 +0000
          Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-23 09:33 +0000

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