[TriLUG] Substitute for pdftk?

[Jason Watts]

VMWare has a bunch of free stuff available...   not open source, but
still free :)

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> On Friday 22 August 2008 07:47, Alan Porter wrote:
> > > but if that falls through I need a plan
> > > B, because pdftk is integrated right into my business.
> >
> > Plan B
> >
> > Install a different distro in a VM and run it there.
> >
> > It's quick, dirty, and wasteful; but you should not have to waste a lot
> > of time on it.
> >
> > Alan
>
> Thanks Alan,
>
> Yeah, I was thinking of keeping Mandriva 2007 on one computer, and having
> that
> computer do the work.  I spoze I could have made some sort of script or
> even
> client server program to automate the transfer back and forth.
>
> It turns out that I'm OK in the short run, because unknown to me when I
> wrote
> the email, Mandriva has rpm's for pdftk, and they work. Because up until a
> couple months ago I was on dialup, my package management techniques are
> 20th
> century. Now that I discovered the ease of installing packages from the
> Internet, I'll probably have a lot less problems.
>
> My long term solution is hopefully to work with Sid Steward to come up with
> a
> more idiot friendly makefile, and to add needed install documentation to
> the
> project. That way if I later don't have broadband, or if I switch to a
> distro
> not providing pdftk, I'll still have pdftk.
>
> Your suggestion reminds me I've never worked with virtual machines. My new
> computer has a dual core pentium 64 and 8GB of RAM, so maybe this is a good
> time to get into that. I'd prefer to go with free software. What do you
> recommend -- UML, Xen, OpenVZ, coLinux, mkLinux, or something else?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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