Thursday, September 20, 2007

Warning, IT Post

I've known for quite a while that you can create PDF files by getting a free "printer driver" that makes a PDF file instead of a piece of paper. I've been using Print2PDF from P602, but I think that cost a couple of dollars. There are good free ones, and I hear cutePDF is good, and would probably recommend it even though I've never used it.

For less time, I've been using a program to combine multiple PDF files into one, and to split and reorder PDF files. I've done it "the hard way". I installed MinSYS, a minimal linux system running in windows, and pdftk to run in that environment. Wow. Not for the feint of heart, but it worked for me. And I was proud that I could do it.

Well, now there is a program for doing this that runs in windows. Angus Johnson has posted pdftk builder. It has the download that runs in Windows and does exactly what my much more complicated implementation of pdftk did, only with a much easier user interface. Trivial? Maybe not, but useful if this is the sort of thing you like to do.

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