PDF-KungFoo with Ghostscript & Co.

Kurt Pfeifle

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Table of Contents

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Changelog (major changes only)
Introduction

I 100 Tipps and Tricks

1 Downloading the tools
2 How can I convert PCL to PDF?
3 How can I to convert XPS to PDF?
4 How can I unit test a Python function that draws PDF graphics?
5 How can I compare 2 PDFs on the commandline?
6 How can I remove white margins from PDF pages?
7 Using Ghostscript to get page size

II Fonts

8 How can I extract embedded fonts from a PDF as valid font files?
9 How can I get Ghostscript to use embedded fonts in PDF?

III Scanned Pages and PDF

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

IV Colors

11 How can I convert a color PDF into grayscale?

V Using pdfmarks

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

VI Text extraction

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

VII Miscellaneous

14 How to recognize PDF format?

VIII Some Topics in Depth

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

Appendix

About the Author
Acknowledgements

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