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QPDF mentions (10)

• Insecure Features in PDFs

  Given how well Preview.app and Safari work for viewing >99% of PDFs I actually encounter in the wild, this article makes Apple's engineering decisions look good. It also confirms many suspicions I've had over the years that have led me to, e.g., running all PDFs from questionable sources through VirusTotal before viewing on platforms where I wouldn't normally run antivirus software. The original article also... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia CUDA, x86 – 'CUDA's a swamp, not a moat, like x86'

  I know you're talking about GUI editing, but I've found libqpdf[1] incredibly useful for making programmatic PDF edits with minimal (typically no) structural disturbance. [1] https://qpdf.sourceforge.io. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Is ExifCleaner still okay to use? No updates in over a year.

  Exiftool edits to PDFs are reversible. The file needs to be re-linearized by a utility such as qpdf. See the exiftool PDF tags page and exifcleaner issue #111. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there any Adobe Acrobat DC/Pro-like PDF reader application in Linux?

  Page organization => If you want a gui, you could use pdfshuffler or pdfsam, though I usually use command like tools like qpdf (or pdftk, stapler, pdfjam, or even ghostscript). Source: almost 2 years ago

• How do I manually remove auto-calculation from specific fields in a PDF?

  If you're okay working on the command line, there is a nice utility called QPDF that you can download here: Https://qpdf.sourceforge.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago

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