Contents

1 Basic Usage
 1.1 Documentation
 1.2 Input and Output Files
 1.3 Input Ranges
 1.4 Working with Encrypted Documents
 1.5 Standard Input and Standard Output
 1.6 Doing Several Things at Once with AND
 1.7 Units
 1.8 Setting the Producer and Creator
 1.9 PDF Version Numbers
 1.10 File IDs
 1.11 Linearization
 1.12 Object Streams
 1.13 Malformed Files
 1.14 Error Handling
 1.15 Control Files
 1.16 String Arguments
 1.17 Text Encodings
 1.18 Font Embedding
2 Merging and Splitting
 2.1 Merging
 2.2 Splitting
 2.3 Splitting on Bookmarks
 2.4 Encrypting with Split and Split Bookmarks
3 Pages
 3.1 Page Sizes
 3.2 Scale Pages
 3.3 Shift Page Contents
 3.4 Rotating Pages
 3.5 Flipping Pages
 3.6 Boxes and Cropping
 3.7 Showing Boxes and Printer’s Marks
4 Encryption and Decryption
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Encrypting a Document
 4.3 Decrypting a Document
5 Compression
 5.1 Decompressing a Document
 5.2 Compressing a Document
 5.3 Squeezing a Document
6 Bookmarks
 6.1 List Bookmarks
  6.1.1 Destinations
 6.2 Remove Bookmarks
 6.3 Add Bookmarks
 6.4 Opening bookmarks
 6.5 Making a Table of Contents
7 Presentations
8 Watermarks and Stamps
 8.1 Add a Watermark or Logo
 8.2 Stamp Text, Dates and Times.
  8.2.1 Page Numbers
  8.2.2 Date and Time Formats
  8.2.3 Bates Numbers
  8.2.4 Position
  8.2.5 Font and Size
  8.2.6 Colors
  8.2.7 Outline Text
  8.2.8 Multi-line Text
  8.2.9 Special Characters
 8.3 Stamping Graphics
 8.4 Low-level facilities
9 Multipage Facilities
 9.1 Inserting Blank Pages
 9.2 Imposition
10 Annotations
 10.1 Listing Annotations
 10.2 Copying Annotations
 10.3 Removing Annotations
11 Document Information and Metadata
 11.1 Reading Document Information
 11.2 Setting Document Information
 11.3 XMP Metadata
 11.4 Upon Opening a Document
  11.4.1 Page Layout
  11.4.2 Page Mode
  11.4.3 Display Options
 11.5 Page Labels
12 File Attachments
 12.1 Adding Attachments
 12.2 Listing Attachments
 12.3 Removing Attachments
 12.4 Dumping Attachments to File
13 Working with Images
 13.1 Extracting images
 13.2 Detecting Low-resolution Images
 13.3 Removing an Image
14 Fonts
 14.1 Listing Fonts
 14.2 Listing characters in a font
 14.3 Copying Fonts
 14.4 Removing Fonts
 14.5 Missing Fonts
15 PDF and JSON
 15.1 Converting PDF to JSON
 15.2 Converting JSON to PDF
16 Optional Content Groups
17 Creating New PDFs
 17.1 A new blank PDF
 17.2 Convert a text file to PDF
18 Miscellaneous
 18.1 Draft Documents
 18.2 Blackening Text, Lines and Fills
 18.3 Hairline Removal
 18.4 Garbage Collection
 18.5 Change PDF Version Number
 18.6 Copy ID
 18.7 Remove ID
 18.8 List Spot Colours
 18.9 PDF Dictionary Entries
 18.10 Removing Clipping
A Dates
 A.1 PDF Date Format
 A.2 XMP Metadata Date Format