PDFtk Server

You can now add or change a PDF’s bookmarks using update_info.

You can now use multi-character input handles.

Prior versions were limited to a single character,
imposing an arbitrary limitation on the
number of input PDFs when using handles.

Handles must still be all uppercase ASCII.

This release adds a means of referring to PDF pages in reverse order.

By prefixing a page number with an r,
it counts from the end of the document.

For example,
r1 is the last page,
r2 is the next-to-last page,
etc.

Other minor changes and fixes have been added.

This release adds a new feature for collating PDF page scans: shuffle. Please see the man page for details. It introduces update_info_utf8, dump_data_utf8, and dump_data_fields_utf8 to provide UTF-8 companions to update_info, dump_data, and dump_data_fields. These latter operations use XML numerical entities to encode non-ASCII characters. The burst feature now copies the metadata (including XMP) from the input file to the output pages. The Bouncy Castle library has been updated to 1.45. This release removes or replaces third-party code that wasn't compatible with pdftk's GPL license. It updates third-party license information.

This maintenance release fixes many bugs and adds a couple features.

A bug with creation of bloated PDFs from input PDF pages
with links was fixed. The drop_xfa option was dropped to be
able to fill forms created with newer versions of Acrobat or
Adobe Designer. The stamp operation was added. Support
for XFDF was added to the form_fill operation.

A bug where the presence of page annotations in
some PDFs would cause pdftk to crash was fixed.
This bug first emerged when processing a PDF
created by FPDF (version 1.52) that contained Web
links. A couple of bugs in the dump_data_fields
form field reporting were fixed. This feature was
also improved so it now reports all possible
settings for check box, radio button, list box,
and combo box form fields.