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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Have you tried mcpdf? |
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I heard about it now for the first time. |
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If I understand correctly, it uses the same library |
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as pdfTK, only a somewhat later version |
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(e.g. with improved unicode handling). |
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The main difference seems to be that it does not insist |
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on gcj but apparently should work with any java: I had |
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suspected that it is the library which depends on some |
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gcj internals and not just the front-end which consists |
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just of a few lines, anyway. |
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So, indeed, this looks like it should be a drop-in |
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replacement, though I did not check whether the |
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license of the updated library changed. |
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Anyway, it would be nice to have it in the tree. ;) |
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> but testing with your tricky PDFs |
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I do not remember anymore. I just remember that |
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several times, when some deadline approached, |
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I had to resort to pdftk at my institute's Debian |
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(in the lack of a gcj at home), even for simple tasks |
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as merging pdftex output with some scanned PDF pages: |
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neither pdfjam nor poppler did it satisfactory, |
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though I do not remember the reasons. |
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