[pdftex] post processing

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:53 PM 8/29/2002 +0200, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>Bonjour pdftex,
>
>  Question of the day: suppose I have a large collection of PDF files and
>  I want to alter them in some way afterwards, are there programs
>  allowing it safely?
>
>  Possible application: byte-optimize & applying modification-protection
>  with password. Also some validation would be nice.
>
>  The program I'm seeeking should be useable as un batch under linux and
>  accept a list of files or directories to treat as input.
>
>  The only program meeting _some_ of my requirement I know is acrobat 5
>  under windows. Apart from the OS problem, it has a serious bug when you
>  use it recursively on directories: it converts (or try to...) any
>  encountered files to PDF even if you tell it not to...

the latest gs distributions come with pdfopt

Hans

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