Mastodawn

“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing”

#Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. You may now redact securely also links, form fields and widgets. In rare cases, when partial image redaction fails, the more secure full image removal is used instead.

But even more important, Censor now warns you, when unsuccessful redaction is detected during postprocessing. This reduces the impact of known issues of unsecure redaction.

Polish is the 11th language you may speak with Censor. Thanks to its translators (among them, @mondstern)!

Thanks a lot also to #pypdf, #qpdf, #pikepdf, #Ghostscript, #MuPDF, #PyMuPDF, and #poppler contributors for the great resource of PDF document samples!

Find it at @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#Censorship #Codeberg #Flathub #GNOME #Linux #Python

Install Censor on Linux | Flathub

Redact PDF documents

Albert Astals Cid Mar 15

Anyone uses pdftops "pipe as filename" feature? I would like to remove it

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2026-March/015723.html

#poppler

Removing pdftops "pipe as filename"

Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.Mar 10

#Desktop #Linux Kryptonite detected: None of the main Linux #PDF readers support the #MuPDF rendering engine. In 2026. C'mon. Get real. #SumatraPDF would be the answer, but the author declines to port it as it's too inherently tied to #Windows itself. KDE never incorporated the #Okular backend for #MuPDF and it's been forked on GitHub nearly 12 times. I tried #Sioyek but I found the UI was too minimalist. #EVince is still stuck using #Poppler. https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/

Free PDF Reader - Sumatra PDF

Sumatra PDF reader and viewer for Windows

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txt.file Feb 9

My problem is not the computer (hardware) that is broken. My problem is the software that is broken.
One of todays problems: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/73454
#macports #poppler

#73454 (poppler @26.01.0: error: no member named 'ranges' in namespace 'std') – MacPorts

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jan 30

After 1.5 years in the making, @gnome Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text & ink annotations on PDFs (using a Wacom tablet stylus, for example), i.e. drawing & handwriting (to circle things or sign documents the old-fashioned way, or highlighting on scanned documents): https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/drawing-writing-with-papers/

Used it in practice today. I've been hoping for this for about 20 years.
Papers nightly is such a massive improvement!

Thank you @lbaudin for implementing it

#GNOMEPapers #PDF #Poppler

Drawing and Writing on PDFs in Papers (and new blog)

Wade Tregaskis Jan 18

Extracting embedded images from a PDF

Surprisingly, the best way (that I’ve found) to do this is to use The Unarchiver, a free app from MacPaw (the folks behind SetApp and many other things). It seems to faithfully extract the images as-is, including ICC profiles (which might technically be separate from the image within the PDF, but nonetheless are crucial to the image being extracted correctly).

The primary reason to extract […]

https://wadetregaskis.com/extracting-embedded-images-from-a-pdf/

Extracting embedded images from a PDF – Wade Tregaskis

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jan 16

I stumbled upon a 2300-pages-long PDF document that actually is a fantastic benchmark for slow search performance (1.5 to 5 minutes) in most PDF readers (including GNOME Papers, Evince and Okular)… so I fired up #Sysprof through GNOME Builder to measure the slowness, and reported my findings in #Poppler for all of you performance optimization aficionados: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1660

#PDF #profiling #performance #FreeDesktop #Linux #GNOMEBuilder #GNOME #GNOMEPapers #Evince #Okular

OSTechNix Jan 8

Learn how to merge PDF files in Linux using pdfunite command. Step-by-step tutorial with examples, scripting tips, faq and troubleshooting.

Read full guide here: https://ostechnix.com/merge-pdf-files-linux-pdfunite-command/

#Pdf #Pdfunite #Poppler #MergePdf #Linux #Commandline

Merge PDF Files in Linux: Complete pdfunite Guide (2026) - OSTechNix

Learn how to merge PDF files in Linux using pdfunite command. Step-by-step tutorial with examples, scripting tips, faq and troubleshooting.

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Wolf Munroe ☎Nov 6

I'm sure I did this the hard way.

I have a one-page ODF (.ods) that I want printed as two pages on front and back of a sheet of paper, and I want to occasionally print 10 copies. Rather than pasting a second page in Calc, I've printed to #PDF, and used pdfunite to make it a two page PDF.

I tried merging PDFs with #ImageMagick but the convert command was lowering the dpi or something; the printed version was dithered. #Poppler pdfunite command worked well though.

#Linux #LibreOffice

Mr. GM Nov 6

So on my laptop there's a program called "poppler" that has updates every few months. It came with the Linux Mint installation and I don't think I've ever gone out of my way to use it.

I keep it installed because every time the name comes up in the update manager I'm reminded of Futurama and smile.

#Linux #LinuxMint #Futurama #Poppler