(CPDF 2.9 BETA)

CPDF 2.9 Beta binaries can be downloaded here: https://coherentpdf.com/beta/Cpdf-2.9-beta-binaries.zip

Not a substitute for stable v2.8.1/v2.8.2, for which see the following instructions:

cpdf-binaries

Download the "master" zip from https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdf-binaries/archive/master.zip. Do not download a versioned tag.

PDF Command Line Tools binaries for Linux, Mac, Windows.

Cpdf is distributed under the AGPL - see LICENSE.md. If you are unable to abide by the terms of the AGPL, you will need a commercial license.

For commercial licenses, email contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk or visit https://www.coherentpdf.com/

Cpdf may be available in your package manager:

Operating system	Command
Windows Winget	winget install cpdf
Windows Chocolatey	choco install cpdf
MacOS	brew install cpdf
Linux Fedora	dnf install cpdf
Linux Ubuntu	apt-get install cpdf (must have 'universe' repository configured)
Linux Debian	apt-get install cpdf
Linux Arch	AUR package cpdf
Linux Gentoo	emerge app-text/cpdf
Linux NixOS	nixshell -p OCamlPackages.cpdf
Linux Alpine	apk add cpdf

Keep up to date by joining the very low volume cpdf-announce mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/g/cpdf-announce/

Functionality

• Quality Split and Merge, keeping bookmarks. Extract pages. Split on Bookmarks.
• Encrypt and Decrypt (including AES 128 and AES 256 encryption)
• Scale, rotate, crop and flip pages. Scale pages to fit.
• Copy, Remove and Add bookmarks
• Stamp logos, watermarks, page numbers and multiline text. Transparency.
• Embed TrueType fonts when adding text
• Supports Unicode UTF8 text input and output
• Make PDF-based presentations
• Put multiple pages on a single page
• List, copy, set, or remove annotations
• Read and set document information and metadata
• Add and remove file attachments to document or page.
• Thicken hairlines, blacken text, make draft documents
• Reconstruct malformed files
• Detect missing fonts, low resolution images
• Export and import PDF files in JSON format
• Build table of contents
• Convert text to PDF
• Draw on PDF files with graphics and text
• Create and process PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2 files
• Process images to, for example, reduce resolution
• Rasterize PDF files

Documentation

PDF Manual:

http://www.coherentpdf.com/cpdfmanual272.pdf

Examples:

http://www.coherentpdf.com/usage-examples.html

Website:

http://www.coherentpdf.com/

To Install

The program cpdf (or cpdf.exe for Windows) is a single executable with no dependencies. Copy it to somewhere suitable on your platform.

The last version of cpdf compatible with Windows XP is v2.2.1.

MacOS: The executable is codesigned, but not notarized. If it refuses to run the first time, go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy and click "Allow anyway". Instructions:

https://www.coherentpdf.com/mac.html

C/C++/Python/.NET/Java API

An API version of these tools is available:

C/C++ source: https://github.com/johnwhitington/cpdflib-source

C/C++ binaries: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary

Python: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/python-libcpdf

Java: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/jcpdf

.NET: https://github.com/coherentgraphics/dotnet-libcpdf

Coherentpdf.js

A JavaScript implementation for node and the browser is available:

https://github.com/coherentgraphics/coherentpdf.js

Support

Raise an issue in this github repository, or email contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk

For commercial licenses, email contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk or visit https://www.coherentpdf.com/