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Yesterday I talked about pdftk and how to modify pdf metadata using this software.

Well, today I’ll show you how to install this great tool in your Redhat systems. In my case, I am using:

$ uname -r
2.6.18-164.9.1.el5

This are the steps I followed:

• Download the last version available:

  wget http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/pdftk-1.41.tar.gz

• Extract the tar contents:

  tar -xzvf pdftk-1.41.tar.gz

• Now change to that directory, check your corresponding Makefile’s variables (TOOLPATH, VERSUFF which in my case are empty) and then proceed to compile:

  cd pdftk-1.41/pdftk
  make -f Makefile.RedHat
  strip pdftk

  Note the last strip command? It is done to reduce the resulting filesize

• Last step, complete the installation (as root):

  make -f Makefile.RedHat install

Now you can use pdftk

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2. Extract / modify PDF metadata (using pdftk)
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