Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:ĭecrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)įill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten FormsĪpply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Therefore it can be used as a PDF editor as well. * Text lines can be imported from other flpsed-modified documents. This is very useful for repeatedly filling in forms. * Batch processing (no X11 required) to modify tagged text lines that have been entered interactively with flpsed before. * The overall structure of the PostScript document is not modified. * Reedit text, that has been added with flpsed. * Add arbitrary text to existing PostScript documents. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes etc.

Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them. Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed. But flpsed lets you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript 1 documents. “Pseudo”, because you can’t remove or modify existing elements of a document.

This tutorial will give some useful pdf editing tools for ubuntu users.įlpsed is a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript1 editor.

Pdf Mod Vs Pdfshuffler