Quickstart Examples
Chapter 1: Basic Usage
Chapter 2: Merging and Splitting
Chapter 3: Pages
Chapter 4: Encryption and Decryption
Chapter 5: Compression
Chapter 6: Bookmarks
Chapter 7: Presentations
Chapter 8: Logos, Watermarks and Stamps
Chapter 9: Multipage Facilities
Chapter 10: Annotations
Chapter 11: Document Information and Metadata
Chapter 12: File Attachments
Chapter 13: Images
Chapter 14: Fonts
Chapter 15: PDF and JSON
Chapter 16: Optional Content Groups
Chapter 17: Creating New PDFs
Chapter 18: Drawing on PDFs
Chapter 19: Miscellaneous
Contents
Typographical Conventions
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
2 Merging and Splitting
2.1 Merging
2.2 Splitting
2.3 Splitting on Bookmarks
2.4 Splitting to Maximum Size
2.5 Spraying
2.6 Encrypting with Split operations
2.7 Splitting and structure trees
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
6.2 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.
8.3 Stamping Rectangles
8.4 Low-level facilities
9 Multipage Facilities
9.1 Inserting Blank Pages
9.2 Imposition
9.3 Chopping up pages
10 Annotations
10.1 Listing Annotations
10.2 Setting annotations
10.3 Copying Annotations
10.4 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
11.5 Page Labels
11.6 Composition of a PDF
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 Listing images
13.3 Listing images at point of use
13.4 Removing an Image
13.5 Processing Images
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
14.6 Extracting 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
17.3 Make a PDF from a PNG or JPEG image
17.4 Make a PDF from one or more JBIG2 images
18 Drawing on PDFs
19 Miscellaneous
19.1 Draft Documents
19.2 Blackening Text, Lines and Fills
19.3 Hairline Removal
19.4 Garbage Collection
19.5 Change PDF Version Number
19.6 Copy ID
19.7 Remove ID
19.8 List Spot Colours
19.9 PDF Dictionary Entries
19.10 Removing Clipping
19.11 Exploring PDFs
A Dates
A.1 PDF Date Format
A.2 XMP Metadata Date Format