PDF-smp (PDF Service Menus Pack) for KDE

Posted March 27th, 2007 by Giuseppe Benigno

Description
Here are two servicemenus for PDF documents

1) pdftk_tools-0.6.1 service menu allow:

– Join selected PDF (alphabetic order)
- Add another pdf to selected file
- Extract pages
- Extraxt all even pages
- Extract all odd pages
- Burst PDF pages
- Repair
- Watermark pages of a PDF file
- Lock (give master password, give user password, select permissions)
- Unlock (with master password)
- Attach arbitrary file (not PDF only, but documents audio image movie too)
(For now, you can view attached files with Acrobat Reader only)
- Extract all attached files (one or more)
(Acrobat Reader not required for this)
(These are only useful when you want to edit PDF code in a text editor like vim or emacs)
- Uncompress PDF files (Remove PDF page stream compression)
- Compress PDF files (Restore page stream compression)
- Document information
- About

depend only on pdftk (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk) and kde

2) pdfjam_tools-0.4.3 service menu allow:

– Rotate -90 degrees pdf files
- Join selected documents
- Add another pdf to selected file
- Now it’s possible to choose if you want framed or no with dialog window!
- 2 pages per sheet
- 4 pages per sheet
- 6 pages per sheet
- 8 pages per sheet
- Custom pages per sheet
- About

Depend only on pdfjam (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam/) and kde

Install: place the desktop files to ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

Enjoy

Changelog of pdfjam_tools

Version 0.4.3
- Added Portuguese translation by João Pedro Gomes

Version 0.4.2
- Added Serbian translation (cyrillic and latin scripts) by Filip Brcic

Version 0.4.1
- Added French translation by Mister Magoo

Version 0.4
- Added “Add another document” item
- Now it’s possible to choose if you want framed or no with dialog window!
- Removed all “with frames” items because obsolete
- Added “About” item

Version 0.3
- Added new item “Join selected documents” using pdfjam
(“save file” window open on the directory of first file selected)
- Now not view the final message if you abort the procedure
- Changed icon for all menu items and dialog windows
- Changed text for dialog windows

Version 0.2
- Added dialog window for save your files
- No more problems with file/directory names with space
- Removed all perl code
- removed other language because I changed the text of dialog windows

Changelog of pdftk_tools

Version 0.6.1
- Added Portuguese translation by João Pedro Gomes (Portuguese)

Version 0.6
- Added “Document information” item (Miguel de Benito)
- Added Spanish translation (Miguel de Benito)
- Misc source code sort

Version 0.5.2
- Added German translation (Karl Reichert)

Version 0.5.1
- Added French translation for dialog windows too (Mister Magoo)

Version 0.5
- Added French translation for konqueror mouse menu (Mister Magoo)

Version 0.4
- Added Polish translation (Sylwester Gruszka)
- Added two new items: “Extraxt all even pages” and “Extract all odd pages”
- Added another items: “Protect”, now you can choose the protection type (printing, modify, copy, annotations)
- Changed text from “Packs arbitrary file” in “Attach arbitrary file”
- Changed text from “Unpack arbitrary files” in “Extract all attached files”
- Added “About” item

Version 0.3
- Add two new items: “Packs arbitrary file” and “Unpack arbitrary files”
- Now not view the final message if you abort the procedure
- Changed icon for all menu items and dialog windows
- Changed text for dialog windows
- Now in “Join selected documents” item the “save file” window open on the directory of first file selected
- Added infos in windows dialog of item “Extract pages”

Version 0.2
- added the windows dialog for many items, now is more complete and friendly
- added the icon, title and other text in the dialog messages
- no more file/directory name with space problems
- now you can get files from konqueror web browser directly (pdf web links)
- Add item: removed the “add others pdf to this” because there are problems with file/directory name with space for multiselection and added “add other pdf” instead
- removed other language because I changed the text of dialog windows
- Removed all perl code

Screenshot

pdfjam service menu

pdftk menu

Download

Download PDF smp 0.1
Download PDF smp 0.1 (Debian, Kubuntu package)

Edit: this package is old. Here there is new version.