[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 17429] New: Provide a "pdftopdf" utility

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17429

           Summary: Provide a "pdftopdf" utility
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: burner at suppressingfire.org


I would like to see a complement to the pdftops and other pdfto* utilities that
can output to pdf. I'd like to see options like -embedfonts (which would embed
all non-embedded fonts in the output), -paper (for changing paper size) along
with -expand and -nocrop, -createopw/-createupw (for creating user/owner
passwords for the output). I'm sure there are many other useful options that
could be added.

ghostscript provides a tool which can do some of this called pdf2pdf.
Unfortunately, its pdf interpreter doesn't appear to be as correct as poppler's
and the resulting pdf that ghostscript generates doesn't look that great. So,
to properly embed fonts in an existing PDF (which is at times necessary for
various publications), I've found I can only get acceptable output by using
poppler's pdftops utility and then using ghostscript's ps2pdf utility with
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress (or -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer) to embed even the standard
postscript fonts.

I'd prefer just to be able to use a single poppler tool to get the job done.


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