PDFedit user documentation

Table of Contents

I. Document purpose
II. PDFEdit general overview
III. Installation
IV. Command line
1. PDF Editor Commandline parameters
Option --help
Option --version
Option -d (n)
Option -console
Option -script (filename)
Option -run (filename)
Option -eval (code)
Option -s (filename)
Option --
2. Localization
V. Graphical user interface (GUI)
3. Command console
4. Page space
Changing page information
Popup menu
5. Object tree, Stream, Selection and Property editor
Purpose and usage
Object tree start objects
Catalog
Pages
Outlines
Adding and deleting objects
Creating pdf files
Controls
Multiselect
Object tree
Property mode
Adding and deleting properties
Property editor
Editing properties
Selection
Text selection
Graphical objects selection
Deleting objects
Stream
Operator description
Operator modes
Adding and deleting properties
6. Menu, toolbars and on-click functions
Toolbars
Main
Page
Selection modes
Draw
Text
Operator
Dynamic
Treeview
Revision
Functions in menu and toolbars
Selection modes
Drawing and adding new objects
7. Settings
Editor tab
Advanced mode
Show hidden properties
Allow editing read-only properties
Remember path of last opened/saved file
Length units
Character encoding
Paths tab
Icon path
Script path
Scripts to run on start
Console log file
Object tree tab
Document dictionary
Object dictionaries
Graphic objects
Annotations
Pages
Outlines
Content streams
Simple objects
Sort dictionary items alphabetically
Commandline tab
Show return value of executed script in console
Show return value also for complex type
Show errors from event handlers
Show command editor
Show command line
Editable command line
History option
Toolbars tab
Look and Feel tab
Aplication font
Console font
Statusbar font
Style
Icon theme
Use big icons
VI. Scripting documentation for PDF Editor