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Jacrobat: A Portable Tool to Generate and Edit Pdf Files

by EngineerHead on October 27, 2009

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Pdf_Tool As the Pdf acronym stands for Portable Document Format, it has efficiently delivered the purpose for which it was developed. Its feature to be independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system has made it ubiquitous. It was a proprietary format which has become an open standard a years ago. Although its structure is OS independent but Pdf Utilities are still required to view, edit, and manage Pdf files.

Jacrobat is a portable and open source application which can be utilized at different operating system because its  only prerequisite is Java. It offers different pretty services to operate with

Pdf files. Launch the Jacrobat batch file to launch the Word Processor.The word processor allows to save the document in Rich Text Format (RTF) or Portable Document Format (Pdf). It is fairly simple and provide basic functions like Font, Size,and Color Selection along with text alignment. After editing and writing the document, choose the document to Save As “Portable Document Format”.

Jacrobat_SavePdf Besides it contains an itext (Jar Executable File). It provides a lot of functions mentioned below

 

  • Convert Bookmark2XML and vice versa.
  • Convert Photos, Tiff and Text files to Pdf.
  • Encrypt and Decrypt Pdf Files.
  • A lot of manipulation option for like Concat, Divide, Split, Reverse Pages, and Watermark.
  • In properties section you can inspect and tree view Pdf files.

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    There are also other functions which can be viewed from Tools Menu. Their use is almost same. In most cases, you have to select input and output files and then adjust the desired attributes and execute. The task is performed.
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Jacob October 28, 2009 at 08:20

Thanx.I was searching for an html to opml converter

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Zawad Iftikhar November 8, 2009 at 17:00

Cool and the best part is it being an open source free project :D

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