Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing PDF problem

On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote:

> Felmon,
> Looks like pdftk is written in Java.
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk
>
> So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime 
> Environment (JRE) interfaces with.  From my experience, it isn't pretty, but 
> functional.
>
> I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in the 
> package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to build 
> it.  But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui code, 
> so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced.  I would be surprised if pdftk 
> does not use the standard Java gui.
> Girvin Herr

good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'.

makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various 
platforms.

I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off 
of Windows or something.

I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too.

F.

> On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote:
> <snip>
> > I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused by 
> > the discussion of desktop environments.
> >
> > it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the Windows 
> > and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui interface on 
> > Linux.
> >
> > Felmon
> <snip>

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