PDFTK Builder™

Version 3.2

Copyright © 2005-07 Angus Johnson

http://www.angusj.com

Author & Copyright:

Angus Johnson

Copyright © 2005-07

About PDFTK Builder:

This freeware Windows utility is designed as a graphical interface to the excellent PDFTK utility. PDFTK is a powerful PDF tool - able to split and merge PDF documents, add and remove passwords, add backgrounds (eg company logos) - to list some of the things it can do. While PDFTK Builder doesn't allow you to do everything PDFTK does, it greatly simplifies getting PDFTK to do the most useful things.

PDFTK Builder will not work without PDFTK which can be downloaded here: http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

Make sure you install PDFTK Builder and PDFTK into the same folder.

Collate:

Collate allows you to rearrange (reorder, delete, & duplicate) pages in a single document and/or combine pages from multiple PDF documents. Multiple documents will be collated in the order they are listed in the 'Source Documents' window. If you wished to insert pages from one document into the middle of another, the main document would have to be listed twice, once before (listing pages to appear before) and once after (listing pages to appear after) the document containing the pages to be inserted. If page ranges are not specified, PDFTK Builder will assume all pages for that document are to be included. Page ranges for each document in the list can be indicated by using a single page number, or a hyphen between start and end pages (reversed page orders are allowed). Multiple ranges are indicated by using commas or semi-colons between ranges.

For example: Given the range “2-6,9,10” in a 12 page document, then pages 1,7,8,11 and 12 will be omitted from the output file.

Split:

Split will separate each page of a PDF file into a separate PDF document.

For example: If the source document is MyPdfFile.pdf, then Split will create MyPdfFile_001.pdf, MyPdfFile_002.pdf, MyPdfFile_003.pdf etc for each page in the document.

Background or Stamp:

‘Background’ enables you to add a background to each page in a document or just the first page. The 'background' (eg a company logo, or a 'draft' watermark) must be another PDF document (the first page of that document if it has more than one page). ‘Stamp’ is very similar to ‘background’ except that the ‘stamp’ is placed on top of the source document.

Rotate:

‘Rotate’ enables you to rotate a range of pages in a document.

Password Protection:

The new document can be password protected (encrypted) by providing 'owner' and 'user' passwords. The 'owner' password does not stop users from reading the document, but it does restrict the actions that users can perform on that document - printing, copying, decrypting etc. Specifying a 'user' password will stop anyone without either 'user' or 'owner' passwords from opening and reading the document.

Disclaimer:

PDFTK Builder™ has been released as freeware provided the user acknowledges that he or she is receiving this software on an "as is" basis and is not relying on the accuracy or functionality of the software for any purpose. The user further acknowledges that any use of this software will be at the user's own risk and the copyright owner accepts no responsibility whatsoever arising from the use of the software.