for me it't a very good idea...

 Sounds great, my German's not so good but I'd be happy to beta (or alpha) test.

regarding the metadata: yes, this is one of the reasons why we had the idea of such a tool. To do simple tasks as edit Metadata, merge documents oder delete pages.

 The interface looks much nicer than other similar tools.  It would be great to have such a tool from a developer of PDF Creator.  Will it have the ability to edit the metadata?  I'd like to update the author, keywords, etc. without re-printing a document.

 Really very useful tool. Waiting for it.

I am a user of PDFCreator and I think that this tool would be very useful for everyone.

 Can't wait for it!

A PDFCreator with such tools is really useful. I use PDFCreator to create PDF-Documents, another program, also freeware, to split and merge the files. For editing, setting remarks, stamps etc. a third program (nearly freeware). I would be happy to get all in one. And what you`ve published looks really good.

BTW - PDFCreator is very fine stuff. Much better than any other PDF printer.

Awesome! Just as oron mentioned, I was also using PDFTK and PDFill Tools to do this kind of manipulations, but there really was the need of something opensource.

I didn't get much about the functions from the screenshots, but what *every* PDF manipulation program misses right now is an automatic trim of whitespace based on page contents, maybe with some configurable minimum margin. And the killer function would be to be able to detect the amount of trimming over the whole document (so this would be a "greatest common trimming" over all pages) or page-by-page (so every page gets trimmed by the maximum possible amount, probably resulting in a different size for every page).

Then of course, must-have functions are N-UP (choosing whether to scale/not to scale pages to fill the "N boxes", should they be of different sizes -- see previous point) and basically everything PDFill Tools does. Plus maybe linearization (pdfopt) and PDFTK's compress/uncompress. Oh, and what about "element extraction"? (Pictures, streams, etc, maybe with a tree-view selection, but maybe I'm now daydreaming ;)

Another interesting feature (but I suppose this is hard to do) would be for size/rotation changes to be applied not only to "display" parameters (e.g. MediaBox and page rotation) but to the PDF layout itself. This is because i stumbled across programs that do no honor "display" parameters (pdfinfo, see here).

Thanks for the hard work and keep it up!

Danilo

Is plan to implemented TRIM or REMOVE WHITE MARGIN features to this tool?

 Hi, 

This looks really interesting.

I would suggest to add support for printing, expecially for signature printing, which is a tedious and error-prone process if done manually.

I am now writing a simple java application to help me in this process, but having it integrated with a PDF-handling utility would really be a Very Good Idea ;)

I am (obviously!) ready to elaborate on the concept if required.

Thanks

This is a great idea! I currently use PDFTK Builder for this and PDFFill is another alternative, but having an open source product from the same 'stable' as my favourite creator would be even better! As features go, my list would be: merging, splitting, removing/inserting individual pages and if I'm really greedy, reordering pages too.

Having a fancy GUI with thumbnails and editing by drag & drop would be nice of course, but I'd be happy even with a simple interface such as the one in the programs mentioned above.

Hallo alle zusammen,

eine Frage an das Entwicklerteam:

Mich würde mal interessieren ab wann es wohl eine erste Beta zum Testen geben wird?

Euch einen schönes Wochenende.

Gruß Nils

Good Idea,I often to used some tool to edit PDF file.
Sometime, we got pdf file but we want to add some comment
or some chenge.Now, the open source that have this function is very inconveion.If your project is going I believe that
your project will get the propular couse it can realy use
with everyone.

Great idea.  I'd be able to do every PDF editing task I need if this tool could do split, merge, extract images, and page rotate.

BTW - PDFcreator is a great tool! ... easy to use, easy to set up.

Hi Phillip et al,

Happy with PDFCreator over the years.  Would be great to have a merging/splitting tool you speak of.  Currently I use some DOS/Java based tool called multivalent.jar to do this.  One other feature we have been wanting is to make PDF files commentable/markable.  We have CAD drawings in PDF and would really like the ability to comment and markup these drawings.  If a free tool could accomplish this we would be really happy.

Regards,

prgadm

Wow ... some of the tasks your new tool will presumably address can be done by pdftk, but this works best on the commandline. So for one-time tasks you fiddle around with manuals and commandline parameters. Some of them can be performed by commercial but free and crippled and advertising pdf viewers, but these are closed-source. And, I have not found a tool until now that can edit pdf text. This pdf architect would be a dream ...

Einen schönen guten Tag,

das was ich bis jetzt sehe, sieht  ja schon mal sehr viel versprechend aus.

Gerade das nachträgliche bearbeiten von Texten finde ich sehr wichtig. Und kommt selbst beim Klassenprimus viel zu kurz. Das ist zumindest meine amateurhafte Meinung.

Ein dickes Lob an das Entwicklerteam! Vielen Dank für die tollen Tool´s die uns beschert. Macht weiter so...

Euch einen schönen Tag.

Gruß Nils

Create instruments for layers. I have drawing with different languages (translations). I want have instrument for put text and some geometry to different layers.

Also it would be usable if this tools can compound some pdfs on one list. I have A1 and A3, also I have plotter-A1, I need put all of them to one pdf and print them in one time. It can be realized in PDFCreator too.

@ERobishaw: The tool is also a kind of reference project for our pdfforge.dll, as it uses many of its functions. Things like editing metata and signing will be possible.

I love that idea!

A while ago I made request in the forum to have an option in PDFCreator to show the document's title in the title bar instead of the file's name. I'd appreciate it, if there was a function like that in your new program. Additionally it would be great, if you made it possible to edit meta data including title, keywords, creator, and so on. Good luck with your new project and happy programming :-)

While you're at it...

Add an ability to put a bitmap anywhere on a page, and its then possible to "sign" documents.

I'm all the time having to open documents, sign them, print them, scan them and resend them.

I've recently begun opening PDFs in Inkscape, one page at a time, add my signature, and then re-save as a PDF.  Afterwards, I merge the pages back together with an on-line merge tool and send it back as a signed document.  Tedious but better than the manual option.

If I could just "paste" my signature, move it where I want it (over the signature line) and save, it would be beautiful!

It would be great to have such a tool, cool idea! If I might add something to the feature-requests: possibility of creating index links, optional manually or based on headers of document (word, openoffice).

cheers

A lot of people who request Acrobat Pro, are basically just trying to acheive basic tasks. It is a heck of a waste of money paying for such simple features and soaks up IT support staff time as the application is so freaking huge!

Look forward to  giving this a whirl.

This looks like a very interesting item. I like what I see.