• Adding text is now completely interactive with the new text inspector
• Merge and reorder pages within and between documents by drag and drop
• Unicode now supported throughout
• PDF manipulation almost twice as fast
• Edit page labels
• Supports OS X Lion and Snow Leopard
• Handles malformed files better
• More that 50 other changes and improvements

Proview 1.5 Available now

Live Text Mode

Text is now added interactively - you can drag the position, and the text updates automatically. New positioning and styling options have been added too.

More screenshots and an introductory video can be found on the upgrade page.

The Text Inspector

The text inspector is used to add text to one or more pages interactively. Dozens of special codes allow dates, times and page numbers to be added automatically.

New diagonal text option, and left, right and center justifications for multi-line text have been added.

The position of the text may now be set by dragging the text directly in the main document window.

Unicode text is now supported for accented and special characters.

Proview 1.5 is available now.

Here’s the publisher’s description:

At last, here’s an approachable introduction to the widely used Portable Document Format. PDFs are everywhere, both online and in printed form, but few people take advantage of the useful features or grasp the nuances of this format. This concise book provides a hands-on tour of the world’s leading page-description language for programmers, power users, and professionals in the search, electronic publishing, and printing industries. Illustrated with lots of examples, this book is the documentation you need to fully understand PDF.

• Build a simple PDF file from scratch in a text editor
• Learn the layout and content of a PDF file, as well as the syntax of its objects
• Examine the logical structure of PDF objects, and learn how pages and their resources are arranged into a document
• Create vector graphics and raster images in PDF, and deal with transparency, color spaces, and patterns
• Explore PDF operators for building and showing text strings
• Get up to speed on bookmarks, metadata, hyperlinks, annotations, and file attachments
• Learn how encryption and document permissions work in PDF
• Use the pdftk program to process PDF files from the command line

New Feature Highlights:

• Speed improvements on large, complex files
• Many robustness improvements, deals with more malformed files
• Detect low resolution images and missing fonts
• Add text relative to cropbox, add diagonal text
• Better support for non-ASCII character sets
• Copy boxes (e.g media box, crop box)

Download the demo here.

Features:

• Merge PDFs
• Split into mutiple pages
• Rotate pages
• Decrypt and Encrypt Documents
• Apply background watermarks and foreground stamps
• List and update Metadata
• Attach files to the document or individual pages

For Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris. Other plaforms by request. Coherent PDF CPDFTK 1.6 is available for $200 for a single license or $40 for a non-commercial use license.

The free trial is fully functional but places the word “DEMO” over any file it writes.

We’re looking for people who used pdftk regularly, either manually or as part of automated systems, to join in testing.

If you’re interested please use the contact form on the front page at http://www.coherentpdf.com/ and send a couple of sentences about how you use pdftk.

New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.

A new version of our PDF Editor for the Mac will be launched next week. New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.

It’s not too late to join the beta program - just sign up with MacDeveloper.net. Proview 1.2 will be a free upgrade for existing users.

1. Reverse the document’s pages using the ‘reverse’ page specification
2. Use the page specification ‘2-end’ to remove the first page
3. Reverse the document again

cpdf in.pdf reverse AND -range 2-end AND -range reverse -o out.pdf

We’ve started work on the next release of Proview with an emphasis on making the existing functionality easier to use (visual selection for cropping, for example). Release expected in the Autumn.

It has the same API as Ocaml’s module - just have your build process find the GraphPDF files before it finds the system ones - the vast majority of programs shouldn’t need altering.

Get it here.