Hello,

Does anybody know if there are any utilities to:

1. fix "broken" xref tables
2. "flatten" the incremental version information to make a "simple" PDF 
(ie, with no incremental update information)
3. change the compression used (ie, take a PDF using flate compression 
and convert it to an uncompressed file, or change a JPEG compressed 
image to a ASCII85 compressed image)
4. offers a "tree" like view of the objects in the PDF

Thanks in advance,

Ghee

Hello Ghee,

You should take a look at PDF CanOpener for #3 and #4- PDF CanOpener
displays all of the COS objects in a PDF document in a tree format much
like a Windows explorer tree.  PDF CanOpener contains a stream editor
that not only allows you to change the compression, but also lets you
daisy chain compression filters.  It also loads and saves stream data
from/to a file, compressed or uncompressed.

A free trial copy can be downloaded at
http://www.windjack.com/products/pdfcanopener.html

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com



Ghee wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know if there are any utilities to:
>
> 1. fix "broken" xref tables
> 2. "flatten" the incremental version information to make a "simple"
PDF
> (ie, with no incremental update information)
> 3. change the compression used (ie, take a PDF using flate
compression
> and convert it to an uncompressed file, or change a JPEG compressed
> image to a ASCII85 compressed image)
> 4. offers a "tree" like view of the objects in the PDF
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ghee

Ghee schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anybody know if there are any utilities to:
> 
> 1. fix "broken" xref tables

pdftk, multivalent tools
both free 	
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/

> 2. "flatten" the incremental version information to make a "simple" PDF 
> (ie, with no incremental update information)

multivalent tools
(not sure about pdftk)

> 3. change the compression used (ie, take a PDF using flate compression 
> and convert it to an uncompressed file, or change a JPEG compressed 
> image to a ASCII85 compressed image)
> 4. offers a "tree" like view of the objects in the PDF

[I am not entirely sure, whether they fufil your requirements, but the 
following two should fit in some way or the other.]

PDFTron COSEdit	 $99  http://www.pdftron.com/cosedit/ stand-alone

WindJack PDFCanOpener $99 
http://www.windjack.com/products/pdfcanopener.html Acrobat plug-in

For more PDF editing tools, see:
https://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/twiki/bin/view/Main/PdfEditingTools

Ralf

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