In message , Lu Wei
writes:
On 2019-10-12 1:15, Arlen _G_ Holder wrote:
A recent thread asking for PDF-related freeware resurrected this listing...
o PDF editor needed, free and local software

https://alt.windows7.general.narkive...itor-needed-fr
ee-and-local-software
All I ask in this thread is that the Usenet potluck members IMPROVE
this listing...
[x] Fast PDF reader: (Sumatra PDF freeware replaces acrobat reader
freeware)
Foxit freeware too (earlier versions less bloated)
[x] Archive sites (wkhtmltopdf freeware replaces Acrobat payware site
archival)
[x] Add or concatenate pages (pdftk freeware replaces Acrobat payware
ordering)
[x] Remove pages (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware easily remove pages)
[x] Rotate pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now rotates pages & allows a save)
[x] Renumber pages (Acrobat Reader freeware now allows renumbering pages)
[x] Remove restrictions (Ghostscript/Ghostview freeware in combination)

Is that a generic "Ghostview", or a specific piece of software?

[x] Merge PDFs (pdfsam freeware & pdftk freeware both merge multiple PDFs)
[x] Extract images (PDF Exchange Viewer freeware)

I couldn't find that. I found the similarly-named
https://www.tracker-software.com/pro...xchange-viewer (no leading
E) ("Replaced by PDF-XChange Editor", but the Viewer's still available),
but I looked through https://www.tracker-software.com/PDFVManual.pdf,
and couldn't find any mention of extracting images. There's saving a
page or part of a page _as_ an image, but that's not the same as
actually extracting an image.
(I use https://www.extractpdf.com/, which works very well [at least for
single images which someone has for some reason only provided as a PDF],
but is an online facility, so not suitable for confidential matters.)

[x] Edit PDF existing text (Acrobat DC commenting replaces Acrobat payware)
[x] Print sans username in the properties (Libre Office Writer, any others?)
[_] Print book format PDF (FinePrint payware but we need a freeware solution)
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (free) will send a booklet to a printer; I
presume you can use it with a PDF "printer".
[x] Tile PDFs to print large posters (Posterazor freeware)
[x] Create new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript freeware)
[?] ??? what else ???

PDF reader and virtual printer: Foxit reader, PDF Xchange
PDF file management (scientific oriented): Mendeley
PDF OCR: PDF Xchange
The above PDF Exchange Viewer freeware says it includes OCR too.
Pictures to PDF: Freepic2pdf
pdf to djvu converter: pdf2djvu

PDF "printer" (create PDF from anything that will print - probably what
Lu Wei means above by "virtual printer") - there are several; I use
pdf995, but CutePDF is another I think. Most require ghostscript if you
haven't already got it; most (certainly pdf995) have a copy downloadable
on the same page (pdf995 will offer to get it, and does so seamlessly if
you accept, the first time you use it if you haven't got it). I presume
there's something about the licencing of ghostscript that prevents it
being integrated into the downloads, even though it is just as free as
they are. Some pdf "printer"s don't need it - I presume either their
creators have incorporated ghostscript regardless, or they've written
their own equivalent.
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