Coherent PDF Tools give you a wide range of professional, robust tools to modify PDF files.

Work from the command line, from scripts or within programs with Coherent PDF Command Line Tools for any platform, or use the .NET Toolkit for C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

All based on our own PDF technology and with a comprehensive 50-page manual.

Feature highlights (less)

• General features
  • Apply most operations to just selected page ranges of input files
  • Decrypt on-the-fly when an input file is encrypted
  • Use standard input and standard output to chain commands together
  • Keep or change PDF File IDs
  • Use a control file for parameters instead of the command line
  • Linearize for fast web view on any operation
  • Call from programs with full error handling
  • Combine multiple operations into one command line
• Merging and splitting
  • Merge several PDF files into one, keeping bookmarks
  • Split a PDF file into several chunks of a give size, keeping relevant bookmarks
  • Split a PDF file at bookmark boundaries (chapter, section etc)
• Page operations
  • Scale pages (e.g from one paper size to another)
  • Scale pages to fit
  • Shift the contents of a page (e.g to change the margins)
  • Rotate a page, in absolute or relative terms
  • Flip a page horizontally or vertically
  • Crop pages, or remove cropping
  • Set a page's media box
• Encrypt and decrypt PDF files using 40 bit, 128 bit or AES security
• Compress and Decompress the streams in a PDF file
• Bookmarks
  • List the bookmarks in a file
  • Remove the bookmarks from a file
  • Add bookmarks to a file
• Make PDF-based presentations with transition effects
• Logos, watermarks and stamps
  • Stamp a page over or under the pages of a file
  • Combine the pages of two files by combining the individual pages
  • Add text, page numbers, or bates numbers to a page in different fonts, colors and sizes
  • Add multiline text.
  • Copy fonts from other PDF documents, allowing the use of any font
  • Stamps can automatically appear on the shorter side of the page.
• Multipage facilities
  • Put multiple pages on one page (n-up)
  • Insert blank pages
• Annotations
  • List annotations
  • Copy annotations from one file to another
  • Remove annotations from a file
• Document information and metadata
  • Count pages
  • List page info
  • List fonts
  • Read document info
  • Set title, author etc.
  • Set page layout, page mode and Acrobat display options
  • Read, delete and set metadata
• Add and remove file attachments, including other PDFs
• Miscellaneous
  • Thicken hairlines
  • Detect missing fonts
  • Detect low resolution images
  • Thicken hairlines
  • Blacken text, fills or lines
  • Make draft documents (remove pictures)
  • Garbage collection of PDF files
  • Change PDF version number
  • Copy unique IDs from one file to another

Product Details

• For Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/x86 (Other platforms by request)
• Comprehensive 48-page manual
• Business and Personal licenses available, and generous discounts on multiple, server or developer licenses by request.

Priced from £39 (About $80). Available for purchase online, or find a reseller.

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