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PDF creation command line tool -- Does one exist?

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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/">pdf creator </a> claims to be able to do this, though to be it's not terribly clear how to do it (at least I couldn't work it out in the few minutes I was fiddling with it)

rjbull:
pdftk
I have it with a GUI but it is a command line tool (cant remember does it come with GUI)
-tomos (February 11, 2009, 07:26 PM)
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PDFTK can do all sorts of things with pre-existing PDFs, but I don't think it has PDF creation capability.  It's a command-line tool.  The GUI is a third-party addon, which, last time I looked, didn't cover all of PDFTK's features, just the most common ones.

tomos:
pdftk
I have it with a GUI but it is a command line tool (cant remember does it come with GUI)
-tomos (February 11, 2009, 07:26 PM)
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PDFTK can do all sorts of things with pre-existing PDFs, but I don't think it has PDF creation capability.  It's a command-line tool.  The GUI is a third-party addon, which, last time I looked, didn't cover all of PDFTK's features, just the most common ones.
-rjbull (February 12, 2009, 03:50 AM)
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thanks rj - you just beat me to it re it not being the tool for this job

Edvard:
Lanux128 has the answer. ^^
The Windows version is here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm

I've used it on occasion and it works well.

lanux128:
yes the LiBTiff also contains other small tools for dedicated conversion purposes. thanks Edvard for linking to the Win32 binaries.

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