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iTextFront help file.
What is iTextFront ?
iTextFront is the tool to operate PDF files. It can do the folowings.
- Concatenates PDF files.
- Extracts a part of PDF files.
- Encrypts PDF files.
- Converts an image file to PDF. JPEG, PNG, WMF, BMP, DIB, GIF (uncompressed),
PSD (Adobe Photoshop), TGA (Truevision Targa) are supported.
- Converts plane text file to PDF.
- Add an watermark to PDF.
Above operations can be done on GUI and CGI.
How to Use it ?
Command Line Mode
| iTextFront |
Run on GUI mode. |
| Options |
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| /split {file-name} {directory-name} |
Split file-name(PDF) to a page per file and save them like 001.pdf, 002.pdf
... in the directory, directory-name. |
| /merge {file[#[n]-[m]]}... {pdf-file} |
Extract page n to page m in the file(s) (PDF), concatenate them, and save
as pdf-file. |
| /encrypt {file-name} {encrypted-file-name} |
Encrypt file-name(PDF) and save as encrypted-file-name. Security options
are specified at the 'security' option. |
| /size {[AB][012345]|Letter|Legal|WIDTHxHEIGHT}[:rotate] |
Specify the page size of image files. 'WIDTHxHEIGHT' means the paper size
in points. 'rotate' means landscape. For example, if you specify '/size Letter:rotate',
image files are converted to PDF, whose image are expanded or contracted and
drawn on the landscaped letter-size page. |
| /margin {left-margin}:{right-margin}:{upper-margin}:{bottom-margin} |
Specify margins of the image files in points. Default margin is 36 points. |
| /security {128|40} {user-password|""} {master-password|""} {permission}...
permissions := ( printing |
modify-contents | copy | modify-annotations | fill-in | screen-readers | assembly
| degraded-printing )
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Security setting.
128 --- 128-bit RC4
40 --- 40-bit RC4
printing --- Allow to print.
modify-contents--- Allow to modify.
copy --- Allow to copy or extract.
modify-annotations --- Allow to add or modify annotations or form fields.
fill-in --- Allow to input form field and signature. (128-bit RC4 only)
screen-readers --- Allow to enable accessibility. (128-bit RC4 only)
assembly --- Allow to modify document assembly. (128-bit RC4 only)
degraded-printing --- Allow to print degraded mode. (128-bit RC4 only) |
| /font-family {font-family-name} |
Select font. You can select from Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times-Roman, ZapfDingbats
and HeiseiMin-W3, HeiseiKakuGo-W5, KozMinPro-Regular for Japanese. |
| /font-size {font-size} |
Select the size of font. |
| /watermark {watermark-file-name} |
Specify the image for watermark. |
| /watermark-text {text} (diagonal|horizontal) ({font-family-name})
({color}) |
Specify text, layout, font and color for watermark. |
| The following options can not be described in @file-name file. |
| /charset {charset-name} |
Specify charset. ISO-8859-1, SHIFT_JIS, UTF-8 are supported.。 |
| /silent |
Don't show the error messages. |
| /log file-name |
Outout error messages to file-name. |
| /? |
Show help. |
| @{file-name} |
Specify options in plane text. Options are splited by line feed. |
For example, if you want to merge the following files, File1.pdf, File2.pdf,
File3.pdf, and save as Merged.pdf, type as the next line.
iTextFront /merge File1.pdf File2.pdf
File3.pdf Merged.pdf
Notice that the installed directory of iTextFront.exe is included in the environment
variable PATH if you want to use iTextFront in DOS mode.
GUI mode
File -- Add
Add files you want to concatenate.
File -- Save as
Save the concatenated file.
File -- Document Security
Set the option for document securities.
File -- Page Setting
Set the settings of page size and margin.
File -- Exit
Close this application.
Edit -- Split
Split the selected files to page-by-page.
Edit -- Remove
Remove the selected files from a list.
Edit -- Remove All
Remove all from a list.
Edit -- Up, Down
Move the selected files in a list.
Form -- Font
Select a font.
Form -- Watermark
Select an image for watermark.
View--View by Acrobat
View the concatenated file.
View--View This Item
View the focused file.
Limitations
LZW compression is not supported.
License etc.
Free. No warranty.
This application uses the following libraries.
Experimental iText
http://www.geocities.com/itextpdf/
JDK1.1 Collections package
http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/infobus/index.html
JIMI Software Development Kit
http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/
Please send a feedbacks to
mailto:ujihara@aurora.dti.ne.jp?subject=iTextFront
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