iText Toolbox

iText Toolbox is a part of Itext and is itself built from many sub-components : convert2pdf (which allows you to convert a wide variety of file types to pdf format), encrypt (a tool that can encrypt your pdf files), manipulate (a set of tools which cover

Here are some key features of "iText Toolbox":

￭ KnitTiff: Suppose you have scanned a book and the end result is two TIFF files. One with the even pages, another one with the odd pages. KnitTif will knit these two TIFF files together into one PDF that has all the pages in the right order. ￭ arguments ￭ odd: the TIFF file with the odd pages ￭ even: the TIFF file with the even pages ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ PhotoAlbum: Build a PhotoAlbum in PDF, containing all the images from a certain directory. The thumbnail pane of the PDF is opened, so that you can see thumbnails of all the images. The thumbnails have the filename of the image as page label. ￭ arguments ￭ srcdir: the path to the directory that contains all the images ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ Tiff2Pdf: Converts a (multipage) TIFF file to PDF. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the original TIFF file ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ pagesize: (optional) can be A4 (default), LETTER or ORIGINAL. When ORIGINAL is chosen, the pages have the same size as the pages of the TIFF. ￭ Txt2Pdf: Converts a plain ASCII txt file to PDF. The font that will be used is Courier 11pt for documents in PORTRAIT, Courier 10pt for documents in LANDSCAPE. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the original file ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ pagesize: a very complete list of page sizes is presented. ￭ orientation: (optional) PORTRAIT (default) or LANDSCAPE ￭ Encrypt: encrypts a PDF ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the unencrypted PDF file you want to encrypt ￭ destfile: the path to the encrypted PDF that should be generated ￭ ownerpassword: (optional) password to be entered when you want to change the permissions or decrypt the PDF afterwards ￭ userpassword: (optional) password to be entered by the user if he wants to see the PDF ￭ permissions: (optional) check the permissions that should be present in the PDF file. If you are using this tool from the commandline, it's a String with a series of '0' and '1' values. ￭ strength: (optional) you can choose 40 bit or 128 bit encoding ￭ Burst: Splits a PDF into single pages. One page per new PDF file, the files have the same name as the original file, but an underscore and page number are added. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the path to the PDF that should be split into single pages. ￭ Concat: Concatenates 2 PDF files into 1. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile1: the path to the first PDF ￭ srcfile2: the path to the second PDF ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ N-up: Generates a new PDF based on an existing one and put N pages of the existing PDF on 1 page of the new PDF. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the path to the source PDF ￭ destfile: the path to the resulting PDF ￭ pow2: N = Math.pow(2, pow2); so pow2 = 1 if you want 2 pages on 1, pow2 = 2 if you want 4 pages on 1, pow2 = 3 if you want 8 pages on 1, etc... ￭ SelectedPages: Allows you to copy a selection of pages from an existing PDF into a new PDF file. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the path to the original PDF ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ selection: a range of pages; the general syntax is: [!][o][odd][e][even]start-end ￭ You can have multiple ranges separated by commas ','. ￭ The '!' modifier removes the range from what is already selected. ￭ The range changes are incremental, that is, numbers are added or deleted as the range appears. ￭ The start or the end, but not both, can be ommited. ￭ Split: Splits a PDF file into two separate PDF files. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the original PDF file ￭ destfile1: the path to the first PDF that should be generated (pages 1 to pagenumber - 1) ￭ destfile1: the path to the second PDF that should be generated (the rest of the pages) ￭ pagenumber: the number of the page where you want to split. ￭ Watermarker: Adds a text watermark to an existing PDF. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the original file ￭ watermark: the text that will be used as watermark ￭ fontsize: the font size of the text watermark ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ DvdCover: Makes you a nice DVD cover for your home movies. ￭ arguments ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ title: the title of the DVD ￭ backgroundcolor: the backgroundcolor of the DVD Cover (for instance 0xFFFFFF) ￭ front: (optional) the front image of the DVD Cover ￭ back: (optional) the back image of the DVD Cover ￭ side: (optional) the side image of the DVD Cover ￭ ExtractAttachments: Extracts all the files that are added to the PDF as an attachment. ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the path to the PDF with the attachments. ￭ Handouts: Generates handouts with room for notes, based on an existing PDF file. ￭ arguments ￭ srcdir: the path to the directory that contains all the images ￭ destfile: the path to the PDF that should be generated ￭ pages: you can choose the number of original pages that should come on one page ￭ LPRClient: Allows to print pdf files directly to network reachable postscript printers that support rfc1179 lpr protocoll (port 515). ￭ The source code was derived from http://www.hemasoft.de/dev/lprj/ ￭ It seems that most of the printers supporting postscript language level 3 are able to process pdf directly but I am not sure about this (Another thing that can break pdf support is the amount of ram in the printer). ￭ arguments ￭ srcfile: the path to the PDF you want to print; if you do not choose a input file it uses a built-in postscript file and sends it to the printer that makes the printer print some internal settings, the postscript engine version and the postscript language level. ￭ hostname (or ip-adress) ￭ queuename: try "raw" or "raw1","raw2" on HP Jetdirect print servers, some other manufacters need "print" or something else ￭ copies: 1-n, just the number of copies you want to print

Requirements:

￭ Java Runtime Environment