pdftk - f9 & f10

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Nov 5 03:11:08 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> It's my understanding that pdftk was removed from the F9 repository due to some
> licensing issues with itext (which pdftk requires to work).
> 
> pdftk is rather important to me and I assume a lot of other people as well.  I
> use it to create two-up impositions for a printing press.
> 
> I found a web page that stated the problems with itext had now been solved so
> itext was in the F10 rawhide repo.
> 
> I just checked and sure enough, itext-2.1.3-4.fc10.src.rpm, right there large
> as life.
> 
> However, pdftk isn't there.
> 
> Accordingly I have two questions:
> 
> Will itext also become officially available for F9?
> 
> Will pdftk become officially available for F9 and F10?
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don't know and not responsive to your specific question but I have been installing the last (Fedora Core 6, if I recall correctly) SRPM and rebuilding it. In the interim, it will work.

Craig




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