Homebrew Formula for PDFtk Server

This is a Homebrew formula for PDFtk Server, the GPL-licensed version of PDFtk, a PDF toolkit.

NOTICE! This project is no longer maintained. The author of PDFtk has not released a new source distribution since July 24, 2013. The latest source release (2.02) does not work for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and above. See this Stack Overflow post for a binary distribution and alternatives to PDFtk.

Features

From the PDFtk Server website, PDFtk Server can:

• Merge PDF documents or collate PDF page scans
• Split PDF pages into a new document
• Rotate PDF documents or pages
• Decrypt input as necessary (password required)
• Encrypt output as desired
• Fill PDF forms with X/FDF data and/or flatten forms
• Generate FDF data stencils from PDF forms
• Apply a background watermark or a foreground stamp
• Report PDF metrics, bookmarks and metadata
• Add/update PDF bookmarks or metadata
• Attach files to PDF pages or the PDF document
• Unpack PDF attachments
• Burst a PDF document into single pages
• Uncompress and re-compress page streams
• Repair corrupted PDF (where possible)

Installation

To install PDFtk Server, first install Homebrew by running this command at the shell prompt:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

See the Homebrew installation instructions for more information.

Then, use brew tap to track the spl/homebrew-pdftk repository:

$ brew tap spl/pdftk

Finally, install the pdftk formula:

$ brew install pdftk

Note that this formula requires the ecj (for Java) and gcc (for gcj) formulas. By default, it requires gcc with the --with-all-languages flag. You can pass --with-java to brew install pdftk if you prefer to install gcc with only Java support (or if you already have that version of gcc installed).

To confirm that installation worked:

$ which pdftk
/usr/local/bin/pdftk
$ pdftk --version

pdftk 2.02 a Handy Tool for Manipulating PDF Documents
Copyright (c) 2003-13 Steward and Lee, LLC - Please Visit: www.pdftk.com
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty, not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Usage

Typing pdftk at the shell prompt gives you a summary of commands:

$ pdftk
SYNOPSIS
       pdftk <input PDF files | - | PROMPT>
            [ input_pw <input PDF owner passwords | PROMPT> ]
            [ <operation> <operation arguments> ]
            [ output <output filename | - | PROMPT> ]
            [ encrypt_40bit | encrypt_128bit ]
            [ allow <permissions> ]
            [ owner_pw <owner password | PROMPT> ]
            [ user_pw <user password | PROMPT> ]
            [ flatten ] [ need_appearances ]
            [ compress | uncompress ]
            [ keep_first_id | keep_final_id ] [ drop_xfa ] [ drop_xmp ]
            [ verbose ] [ dont_ask | do_ask ]
       Where:
            <operation> may be empty, or:
            [ cat | shuffle | burst | rotate |
              generate_fdf | fill_form |
              background | multibackground |
              stamp | multistamp |
              dump_data | dump_data_utf8 |
              dump_data_fields | dump_data_fields_utf8 |
              dump_data_annots |
              update_info | update_info_utf8 |
              attach_files | unpack_files ]

       For Complete Help: pdftk --help

For a detailed description, refer to the man page:

$ man pdftk