PDF-KungFoo with Ghostscript & Co.

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10 parts
20 chapters
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Part 1

Metadata3 chapters

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  1. Metadata

  2. Changelog (major changes only)

  3. Introduction

Part 2

I 100 Tipps and Tricks7 chapters

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  1. 1 Downloading the tools

  2. 2 How can I convert PCL to PDF?

  3. 3 How can I to convert XPS to PDF?

  4. 4 How can I unit test a Python function that draws PDF graphics?

  5. 5 How can I compare 2 PDFs on the commandline?

  6. 6 How can I remove white margins from PDF pages?

  7. 7 Using Ghostscript to get page size

Part 3

II Fonts2 chapters

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  1. 8 How can I extract embedded fonts from a PDF as valid font files?

  2. 9 How can I get Ghostscript to use embedded fonts in PDF?

Part 4

III Scanned Pages and PDF1 chapters

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  1. 10 How can I make the invisible OCR information on a scanned PDF page visible?

Part 5

IV Colors1 chapters

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  1. 11 How can I convert a color PDF into grayscale?

Part 6

V Using pdfmarks1 chapters

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  1. 12 How can I use pdfmark to insert bookmarks into PDF? (CONTENT STILL MISSING)

Part 7

VI Text extraction1 chapters

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  1. 13 How can I extract text from PDF? (CONTENT STILL MISSING)

Part 8

VII Miscellaneous1 chapters

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  1. 14 How to recognize PDF format?

Part 9

VIII Some Topics in Depth1 chapters

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  1. 15 Can I query the default settings Ghostscript uses for an output device (such as ‘pdfwrite’ or ‘tiffg4’)?

Part 10

Appendix2 chapters

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  1. About the Author

  2. Acknowledgements