grgwmsm
(Gray Herring)
May 10, 2022, 10:41pm
#1
Hi,
I am a brand-new Fedora user and really like the quality and refinement of the OS. But it is missing a couple apps (mat2 & pdftk) that I use a lot (I am coming to Fedora from Debian). Can anyone suggest some equivalent apps that will perform the same basic functions?
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qulogic
(Elliott Sales de Andrade)
May 10, 2022, 11:34pm
#2
It would help to find suggestions if you explained what those missing apps did.
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rscmcl
(Sebastián)
May 11, 2022, 1:04am
#3
did you checked https://flathub.org/ ?
search/pdf
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pdftk exists in fedora, don’t know if it is the same
pdftk-java.noarch : GCJ-free toolkit for manipulating PDF documents
if you really want/need to use mat2 you could use/install it manually
mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3: at its core, it's a library, used by an eponymous...
Gray Herring:
pdftk
pdftk was retired from Fedora. I can’t see why, but usually it’s because the maintainer didn’t want to look after it anymore or it didn’t build anymore, or if it was no longer actively developed:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pdftk/commits/rawhide
grgwmsm
(Gray Herring)
May 11, 2022, 3:07pm
#5
pdftk is a command-line PDF editor which allows user to merge and separate by page PDFs
mat2 is a command-line Metadata Anonymization Toolkit which allows viewing and removal of metadata for privacy reasons in all kinds of documents
qulogic
(Elliott Sales de Andrade)
May 11, 2022, 10:48pm
#6
For pdftk
, you can use qpdf
; it supports selecting pages and joining PDFs:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qpdf
For mat2
, you might be able to use Obfuscate or Metadata Cleaner. They’re not packaged in Fedora, but are available on Flathub:
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grgwmsm
(Gray Herring)
May 12, 2022, 2:16pm
#7
These are some great suggestions. Thank you!
Wish I didn’t have to use Flatpak, but it appears there’s no choice for some apps.
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