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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by moopie on Monday October 13, 2025 @08:06AM (#45567423)
It’s not open-source, so practically the question is equivalent to “why reinvent the wheel by creating libreoffice when there’s a perfectly good Microsoft office suite out there”
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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by mkesper on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:03AM (#45567881)
The server component is under GNU GPL: https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-license/
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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by forgotpwd16 on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:52PM (#45570570)
In case anyone gets confused, PDFTk Server is just the name for the CLI tool, which hasn't been updated in 10y+ (and annoying to compile due to newer GCC versions removing GCJ). The pdftk provided in various distros (incl. Debian, Fedora, Arch, NixOS) is pdftk-java, a 3rd-party pure Java port of the original tool.
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