node-cpdf
cpdf wrapper for node
Index
- Basic Usage
- Merging and Splitting
- Pages
- Encryption and Decryption
- Compression
- Bookmarks
- Presentations
- Logos, Watermarks and Stamps
- Multipage Facilities
- Annotations
- Document Information and Metadata
- File Attachments
- Miscellaneous
1. Basic Usage
cpdf in.pdf 1-3,6 -o out.pdf
Read in.pdf, select pages 1, 2, 3 and 6, and write those pages to out.pdf.
cpdf in.pdf even -o out.pdf
Select the even pages (2, 4, 6...) from in.pdf and write those pages to out.pdf.
cpdf -merge in.pdf in2.pdf AND -add-text "Copyright 2014" -o out.pdf
Using AND to perform several operations in order, here merging two files together and adding a copyright stamp to every page.
cpdf -control control.txt
Read control.txt and use its contents as the command line arguments for cpdf.
2. Merging and Splitting
cpdf -merge in.pdf in2.pdf -o out.pdf
Merge in.pdf and in2.pdf into one document, writing to out.pdf.
cpdf -split in.pdf -o Chunk%%%.pdf -chunk 10
Split in.pdf into ten-page chunks, writing them to Chunk001.pdf, Chunk002.pdf etc.
cpdf -split-bookmarks 0 in.pdf -o @N.pdf
Split in.pdf on bookmark boundaries, writing each to a file whose name is the bookmark label.
3. Pages
cpdf -scale-page "2 2" in.pdf -o out.pdf
Scale both the dimensions and contents of in.pdf by a factor of two in x and y directions.
cpdf -scale-to-fit usletterportrait in.pdf -o out.pdf
Scale the pages in in.pdf to fit the US Letter page size, writing to out.pdf
cpdf -shift "26pt 18mm" in.pdf -o out.pdf
Shift the contents of the page by 26 pts in the x direction, and 18 millimetres in the y direction, writing to out.pdf
cpdf -rotate-contents 90 in.pdf -o out.pdf
Rotate the contents of the pages in in.pdf by ninety degrees and write to out.pdf.
cpdf -crop "0 0 600pt 400pt" in.pdf -o out.pdf
Crop the pages in in.pdf to a 600 pts by 400 pts rectangle.
4. Encryption and Decryption
cpdf -encrypt 128bit fred joe in.pdf -o out.pdf
Encrypt in.pdf using 128bit PDF encryption using the owner password fred and the user password joe and writing the encrypted file to out.pdf
cpdf -decrypt in.pdf owner=fred -o out.pdf
Decrypt in.pdf using the owner password, writing to out.pdf.
5. Compression
cpdf -compress in.pdf -o out.pdf
Compress the data streams in in.pdf, writing the result to out.pdf.
cpdf -decompress in.pdf -o out.pdf
Decompress the data streams in in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
6. Bookmarks
cpdf -list-bookmarks in.pdf
List the bookmarks in in.pdf. This would produce:
0 "Part 1" 1 open
1 "Part 1A" 2
2 "Part 1B" 3
0 "Part 2" 4
1 "Part 2a" 5
cpdf -add-bookmarks bookmarks.txt in.pdf -o out.pdf
Add bookmarks in the same form from a prepared file bookmarks.txt to in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
7. Presentations
cpdf -presentation in.pdf 2-end -trans Split -duration 10 -o out.pdf
Use the Split style to build a presentation from the PDF in.pdf, each slide staying 10 seconds on screen unless manually advanced. The first page, being a title does not move on automatically, and has no transition effect.
8. Logos, Watermarks and Stamps
cpdf -stamp-on watermark.pdf in.pdf -o out.pdf
Stamp the file watermark.pdf on to each page of in.pdf, writing the result to out.pdf.
cpdf -topleft 10 -font Courier -add-text "Page %Page\nDate %d-%m-%Y" in.pdf -o out.pdf
Add a page number and date to all the pages in in.pdf using the Courier font, writing to out.pdf
9. Multipage Facilities
cpdf -twoup-stack in.pdf -o out.pdf
Two up impose the file in.pdf, writing to out.pdf
cpdf -pad-after 1,3,4 in.pdf -o out.pdf
Add extra blank pages after pages one, three and four of a document.
10. Annotations
cpdf -list-annotations in.pdf
List the annotations in a file in.pdf to standard output. This might produce:
Annotation text content 1
Annotation text content 2
cpdf -copy-annotations from.pdf in.pdf -o out.pdf
Copy the annotations from from.pdf to in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
11. Document Information and Metadata
cpdf -set-title "The New Title" in.pdf -o out.pdf
Set the document title of in.pdf. writing to out.pdf.
cpdf -hide-toolbar true in.pdf -o out.pdf
Set the document in.pdf to open with the Acrobat Viewer's toolbar hidden, writing to out.pdf.
cpdf -set-metadata metadata.xml in.pdf -o out.pdf
Set the metadata in a PDF in.pdf to the contents of the file metadata.xml, and write the output to out.pdf.
cpdf -set-page-layout TwoColumnRight in.pdf -o out.pdf
Set the document in.pdf to open in Acrobat Viewer showing two columns of pages, starting on the right, putting the result in out.pdf.
cpdf -set-page-mode FullScreen in.pdf -o out.pdf
Set the document in.pdf to open in Acrobat Viewer in full screen mode, putting the result in out.pdf.
12. File Attachments
cpdf -attach-file sheet.xls in.pdf -o out.pdf
Attach the file sheet.xls to in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
cpdf -remove-files in.pdf -o out.pdf
Remove any attachments from in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
13. Miscellaneous
cpdf -blacktext in.pdf -o out.pdf
Blacken all the text in in.pdf, writing to out.pdf.
cpdf -thinlines 2pt in.pdf -o out.pdf
heroku buildpack
For those who need to run this binaries on heroku, please visit https://github.com/railslab/heroku-buildpack-cpdf for the add-on.