PDFClerk 3.0 - series of PDF manipulation tools

  PDFClerk contains a series of PDF manipulation tools
  4.91 MB | Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later | Shareware

PDFClerk is your personal assistant for PDF Documents.

PDFClerk is a tool that allows you to join multiple PDF documents together, rearrange the page order, delete individual pages, impose multiple pages onto a sheet of paper and rotate pages on imposed sheets, making it easy to create your own books, booklets and magazines.

You can even create books for languages that read from right to left like Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew.

Extended page and imposition control, and the ability to overlay graphics and text objects and print crop, bleed and registration marks as well as color/grayscale bars and print pages in mirror image.

Explode documents into smaller single or multiple page documents. Split documents into even and odd pages. Define or resize existing PDF display boxes (crop, bleed, trim, art).

Create and edit hyperlinks, mark-up pages with rectangles, ovals triangles and lines.

Here are some key features of "PDFClerk":

· Pages With and/or Without PDF Content: pages do not need to contain PDF content (e.g. only text and/or graphics is possible), mix and match per page to your heart’s content...
· Merge PDF Documents by importing or dragging one or more documents onto the page list. Append, interleave (e.g. when joining a document with even pages with a document with odd pages) or merge in other patterns as required using the Interleave import option.
· Exchange Pages Between Documents by dragging selected pages from one document to another.
· Add Blank Pages: easily add blank pages to any document.
· Duplicate Pages: easily duplicate selected pages.
· Rearrange Page Order: drag pages around to change the page sequence.
· Sort Pages by Page Number, Source Name or Page Label by clicking on the column headers in the list of pages.
· Rotate Pages: rotate selected pages by 90º increments.
· Add Layered Graphics and Text Boxes: paste text or graphics, or drag graphics onto pages.
· Add Vector Objects: add live vector objects with flexible formatting/appearance options.
· Rotate Objects: rotate selected objects by 45º increments.
· Resize Objects on Page: drag object edges to resize objects.
· Lock/Unlock Objects on Page to ensure they stay put while editing other page objects.
· Color Paper (Page Background) change the color of the page background.
· Manual and Automated Page Relabeling use standard or roman numerals, with optional prefix and/or postfix.
· Overlay Page Labels with opaque or transparent background, e.g. allowing you to add or replace existing page numbers.
· Import Text Files: you can import plain text, rich text format and, to some extent, MS-Word files. Complex rtf and doc files are only partly supported. Your mileage may vary.
· Split Pages: Export to two documents with even and odd pages split, or explode into a separate document for each page, or even into documents with your choice of sheets (pages) per document.
· Print Finished Layouts to a New PDF Document: use flexible options to create new PDF documents from your work in PDFClerk (splitting even/odd pages, exploding into sets of any number of pages).
· Display Media, Crop, Bleed, Trim or Art Box: you can dynamically choose which PDF display box is used to render each PDF page. PDFClerk will adjust the layout dynamically as appropriate.
· Define each page's PDF display box: you can define display boxes for pages individually or batch assign them to any batch of selected pages, mirroring the margins for opposite pages if required.
· Save each page as a graphics file: save all or selected pages as individual graphics files in the format of your choice.
· Recurring patterns: add watermarks, headers, footers and other recurring patterns to your documents.
· Media Library: keep often used objects in an easily accessible library to quickly drop onto your pages. Get easy access to your photos and other graphics files.


Limitations:

· Each page is stamped with a watermark.

What's New in This Release:

· PDF outlines (a.k.a. Boomarks): Create and edit outline items manually or automatically.
· PDF annotations: Mark up and collaborate on documents with ease.
· PDF forms: Create and edit interactive forms.
· PDF document encryption.
· Selectable and searchable document text.
· Thumbnail view for light-table style views of your documents.
· PDFClerk files can be exchanged without losing custom layouts.
· More powerful page and imposition layout features: incl. even/odd sheet margins and resizing media boxes.
· Speech: Have selected text or whole documents read back to you or saved to an audio file.
· Applescript: Automate repetitive tasks.
· Font info: the fonts used in selected text.
· Use the remote control to browse documents and/or present them fullscreen.
· More new features and many interface improvements