A look at pdftk
I don’t know how many ways you can create PDF files in Linux. Most applications let you save documents directly to PDF, and you can convert files to PDF quite easily. But manipulating those PDFs is a bit trickier. various applications let you to fiddle with PDFs in one or two ways. But if you’re a command line junkie, an app called pdftk (PDF Toolkit) is practically an all-in-one solution. It’s the closest thing to Adobe Acrobat that I’ve found for Linux.
pdftk’s developer describes it as the PDF equivalent of an “electronic staple remover, hole punch, binder, secret decoder ring, and X-ray glasses.” That’s pertty close to the truth. Pdftk can:
Join and split PDFs
Pull single pages from a file
Encrypt and decrypt PDF files
Add, update, and export a PDF’s metadata
Export bookmarks to a text file
Add or remove attachments
Fix certain damaged PDF
Fill out PDF forms
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