We’re put together a handy little freebie called Quick PDF Tools, it’s based on our royalty-free SDK, Quick PDF Library. In short, it allows you to perform some basic PDF-related functionality, right from Windows Explorer (in the context menu).
Features:Â
Edit PDF properties (Title, Author, Subject and Keywords) Edit PDF layout and magnification Modify PDF viewer preferences Add/remove passwords for PDF Merge selected PDF files Convert (almost) any image to PDF Remove all bookmarks from a PDF And much more…
Check it out, it’s free — but sorry Mac users, Windows only. You can read the rest of the press release here.
Hi, I tried it out. It’s a good idea and I recommend you promote it especially for Vista users–the built-in Windows search allows you to specify tags for certain file types (.doc, .pdf, etc), but you can’t edit the tags/keywords for pdfs! Lucky for this tool.
One problem though. Word 2007 created PDFs don’t seem to work with this tool. I found two problems:
1) Sometimes the Word-created PDF is shown by Quick PDF to have a open password, but it does not. I can open it without entering a password, besides that I am 100% sure a password was not specified in Word either.
2) Editing the keyword property using Quick PDF makes the document unopenable / messes up the first page of the document.
Is this a problem with PDF 1.5 compatibility, PDF 1.5 being the version of PDF used by Word 2007?
I added keywords to PDFs created via distiller and another program that were PDF 1.2 and 1.6 and they appeared to be fine after the alteration.
Any ideas?
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your feedback, if you can send the PDFs you’ve identified this problem with to support@debenu.com, we’ll go through and work out the problems.
FYI> a new version is due for imminent release.
Cheers -Karl