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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: pdftk
From:       "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-12-10 9:23:28
Message-ID: CAJVv0OnHx8+xUnNPUz8rvcvcJfAoqzBaedeypXqr3aC_5TDMEw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored@inbox.com> wrote:
> What is the story with pdftk?

As pointed out by others, it used a really old Java stack that is no
longer supported.

There is a more modern replacement called mcpdf.  It supports the same
command line syntax but has much more modern underpinnings.  However,
it uses a newer version of the iText library that cannot be included
in Fedora due to nonfree restrictions in its license:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html

If you are fine with those additional restrictions, you are still free
to download and it use it yourself.  Make sure you have OpenJDK
installed if you do not already (`yum install java`), then download
and run it, as described here:
https://github.com/m-click/mcpdf/blob/master/README.org

-T.C.
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