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

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 […]

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

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

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

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

Am really enjoying using Julia as a pseudo-shell.

I needed to chop up some pdfs and rearrange the pages. Poppler-utils is great but I never really learnt Bash scripting so it was going to be a bit of a slog.

Thankfully, Julia makes it really easy to bulk copy or move files in mostly regular sequences

#JuliaLang #poppler