A customer recently asked how to do this. The Coherent PDF Tools page specification doesn’t directly allow it, but we can do it indirectly:
cpdf in.pdf reverse AND -range 2-end AND -range reverse -o out.pdf
You can get the Proview PDF Editor at 25% off for the next 16 days at mupromo.com.
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.
I’ve written a version of Ocaml’s Graphics module which outputs PDF directly, using the CamlPDF library – its only dependency. It’s based on the approach of Pierre Weis’ GraphPS program.
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.
I’m pleased to announce the CamlPDF 0.5 release, which includes a couple of new modules (Pdfdate for date manipulation, Pdfannot for annotations and Pdfmarks for bookmarks). Almost every other module has been improved in some way.
Download it here: http://www.coherentpdf.com/ocaml-libraries.html
More importantly, I’ve finally found time to write a short introduction to CamlPDF, which lets you try some basic work within the OCaml top level:
http://www.coherentpdf.com/introduction_to_camlpdf.pdf
There have been some API modifications which are not backward compatible, but the changes to your source are easy to make. This should be the last release with such changes.
There is now a CamlPDF mailing list:
We’ve just released the latest version of our PDF Command Line Tools for Windows, Mac and Linux. The tools provide editing of PDF files including merging, splitting, adding text, compressing, encrypting etc.
New Features:
A new version of the CamlPDF libraries to reflect the changes with be released soon.
Full details and free trial here.
Our new PDF Editor for the mac is out – get it here.
Technical note: Written in OCaml and Objective C with Cocoa.
Thanks to all the beta testers – your license codes will be sent out shortly.
We’re well into the first testing cycle for Proview now. We’re using MacDeveloper, which automates the process somewhat, and has a group of about 8000 people signed up for testing, giving them discounts or free copies of the software when they’ve submitted enough acceptable bug reports to the ticketing system.
MacDeveloper runs with its own ticketing system, but the data can be exported to CSV. Haven’t worked out how to get it into bugzilla yet, though.
I’m happy with how few crash/freeze bugs have been reported, and the complaints about the interface seem to crystallize around a couple of issues – so we’ll re-jig it before the next release.
Here and here are a couple of articles on contemporary beta testing.
After some unexpectedly intricate work involving encryption, we’re almost ready for the closed Beta Test of our new PDF editor for OS X, written in OCaml.
Anyone wishing to join the test should email us via the form on the front page at http://www.coherentpdf.com/
I’m beginning a closed beta test of our new PDF Editor for Mac OS X – see posts below for details.
If you’d like to be included, please use the contact form on our front page, giving if possible a short explanation of the kinds of things you might do with such a product. Feel free to pass on this invitation to friends who might be interested.
Not very mac-like or slick yet, but the core functionality is almost there. The architecture for error handling and progress-bars between Cocoa and Ocaml is now complete.
Launch sometime later this year.
