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 Post subject: PDF command line tool
PostPosted: January 15th, 2008, 3:51 pm 
does anybody know of command tool that can retrieve the page number from the pdf document. small and free. it has to be something like that
the case is that i wasnt able to find it.


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pdftk my.pdf dump_data output my_report.txt

my_report.txt contains
NumberOfPages: 12

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where do u type that? I tried CMD but had no luck, it's not recorgnizing pdftk as a valid command.


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thanks!


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http://www.accesspdf.com/article.php/20041130153545577


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omg, this is sooooooo coooooooool :shock: .
Thanks!


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Sorry, forgot link :shock:

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shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to crop pdf pages with cmd?


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shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to crop pdf pages with cmd?


No. But, (another shot in the dark), maybe you could change printer margin settings, and in that way, "crop" the pdfs @ print-time.


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neXt wrote:
shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to crop pdf pages with cmd?
That should help: PDF Split and Merge (java - open source)


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Question, i can't get it to work with AHK, here is what i have tried:
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run %comspec% pdftk ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt

Code:
run %comspec% /c pdftk ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt

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runwait %comspec% /c pdftk ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt


If i test it through cmd it works just fine, how do i make it work?
I even tried running it from the same directory:
Code:
run pdftk.exe ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt

Any ideas?
Thanks. :D


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Having a.pdf and pdftk.exe in the same directory, this worked for me:
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run pdftk a.pdf dump_data output a.txt
The file a.txt was created

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My bad, running %comspec% from AHK automatically sets working directory to scripts folder, i though i was working in "documents and settings". Everything is good now, thatnks.


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PostPosted: January 18th, 2008, 6:48 pm 
please can anybody post a working example of how we can execute this command line program from the script?

i tried and succeeded to start from command line but when i try from script
i dont have any results.

the script and pdftk.exe are in the same folder and pdf file as well
how do i get this to work pdftk final.pdf dump_data output final.txt

thanks in advance.


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Code:
runwait %comspec% /c pdftk ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt

comspec in AHK is cmd. Switch /c will run command and exit after it's done, if you have problems replace it with /k it will show you what error you have.

this will run cmd in hidden mode:
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runwait %comspec% /c pdftk ENT.pdf dump_data output pages.txt,,hide


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