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Ghee

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Dec 14, 2004, 11:58:51 AM12/14/04
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Hello,

Does anybody know if there are any utilities to:

1. fix "broken" xref tables
2. "flatten" the incremental version information to make a "simple" PDF
(ie, with no incremental update information)
3. change the compression used (ie, take a PDF using flate compression
and convert it to an uncompressed file, or change a JPEG compressed
image to a ASCII85 compressed image)
4. offers a "tree" like view of the objects in the PDF

Thanks in advance,

Ghee

Ralf Koenig

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Dec 14, 2004, 8:33:03 PM12/14/04
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Ghee schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know if there are any utilities to:
>
> 1. fix "broken" xref tables

pdftk, multivalent tools
both free
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/

> 2. "flatten" the incremental version information to make a "simple" PDF
> (ie, with no incremental update information)

multivalent tools
(not sure about pdftk)

> 3. change the compression used (ie, take a PDF using flate compression
> and convert it to an uncompressed file, or change a JPEG compressed
> image to a ASCII85 compressed image)
> 4. offers a "tree" like view of the objects in the PDF

[I am not entirely sure, whether they fufil your requirements, but the
following two should fit in some way or the other.]

PDFTron COSEdit $99 http://www.pdftron.com/cosedit/ stand-alone

WindJack PDFCanOpener $99
http://www.windjack.com/products/pdfcanopener.html Acrobat plug-in

For more PDF editing tools, see:
https://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/PdfEditingTools

Ralf

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Dimitri

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Dec 14, 2004, 7:43:09 PM12/14/04
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Hello Ghee,

You should take a look at PDF CanOpener for #3 and #4- PDF CanOpener
displays all of the COS objects in a PDF document in a tree format much
like a Windows explorer tree. PDF CanOpener contains a stream editor
that not only allows you to change the compression, but also lets you
daisy chain compression filters. It also loads and saves stream data
from/to a file, compressed or uncompressed.

A free trial copy can be downloaded at
http://www.windjack.com/products/pdfcanopener.html

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com

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