NAME

       rewritepdf - Rebuild a PDF file

SYNOPSIS

        rewritepdf [options] infile.pdf [outfile.pdf] [password(s)]\n";

        Options:
          -c --cleanse        seek and destroy unreferenced metadata in the document
          -C --clearannots    remove all annotations (including forms)
          -d --decode         uncompress any encoded elements
          -f --filter=name    compress all elements with this filter (can use more than once)
          -X --decrypt        remove encryption from the document
          -o --order          preserve the internal PDF ordering for output
          -v --verbose        print diagnostic messages
          -h --help           verbose help message
          -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

          -p --pass opass upass              set a new owner and user password
          -P --prefs print modify copy add   set boolean permissions for the document

       The optional password arguments are needed to open password-protected PDF files.  Here's an example of
       password-protecting and then unprotecting it in sequence:

         rewritepdf --pass SecretPass SecretPass orig.pdf passworded.pdf
         rewritepdf --decrypt passworded.pdf unprotected.pdf SecretPass

       If you want to prevent people from being able to perform the latter step, then tighten your permissions:

         rewritepdf -p Secret Secret -P 1 0 0 0 orig.pdf passworded.pdf

       which means that users can print the passworded PDF, but not change it, copy-and-paste from it, or append
       to it.

DESCRIPTION

       Read and write a PDF document, and possibly modify it along the way.

       The "--cleanse" option could possibly break some PDFs which use undocumented or poorly documented PDF
       features.  Namely, some PDFs implicitly store their "FontDescriptor" objects just before their Font
       objects, without explicitly referring to the former.  Cleansing removes the former, causing Acrobat
       Reader to choke.

       We recommend that you avoid the "--decode" and "--filter" options, as we're not sure they work right any
       longer.

SEE ALSO

       CAM::PDF

AUTHOR

       See CAM::PDF

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-12-08                                     REWRITEPDF(1p)