PDFRESURRECT(1)

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version 0.23 · 2 versions
  • 0.23 · debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking (latest)
  • 0.22 · ubuntu jammy
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💖 PDFRESURRECT 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pdfresurrect, and it lives in section 1 of the general commands manual. she's a lil tool that digs the version history out of PDF documents. like, PDFs lowkey keep receipts of their past selves and she finds them. it's giving forensic scientist but make it cute 🕵️♀️✨

✨ NAME ✨

pdfresurrect — tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pdfresurrect file.pdf [-w][-q][-i]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This manual page documents briefly the pdfresurrect command. fr fr, that's the whole point of this page, no cap.

pdfresurrect is a tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents. that's it, that's her whole job, and she does it well 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

A summary of options is included below. here we go bestie, all of them, no skipping:

  • -w — Write the PDF versions and summary to disk. 💾 she's saving the receipts.
  • -q — Display only the number of versions contained in the PDF. just the count, nothing else, keep it minimal, main character energy.
  • -i — Display the creator information from the specified PDF. who made this?? let's find out 👀

💜 NOTES 💜

okay so this part is the important part, the ykyk part, so pay attention:

This tool relies on the application reading the pdfresurrect extracted versions to treat the last xref(cross-reference) table as the most recent in the document. This should typically be the case. 🫶

The verbose output, which tries to deduce the PDF object type (e.g. stream, page), is not always accurate, and the object counts might not be 100% accurate. However, this should not prevent the extraction of the versions. This output is merely to provide a hint for the user as to what might be different between the documents. like, it's vibes-based detective work, not gospel 🙈

Object counts might appear off in linearized PDF documents. That is not truly the case, the reason for this is that each version of the PDF consists of the objects that compose the linear portion of the PDF plus all of the objects that compose the version in question. Suppose there is a linearized PDF with 59 objects in its linear portion, and suppose the PDF has a second version that consists of 21 objects. The total number of objects in "version 2" would be 59 + 21 or 80 objects. math girlies stay winning 🧮✨

BSD-3-Clause

👑 AUTHORS 👑

pdfresurrect was originally written by Matt Davis <mattdavis9@gmail.com>. 💖

The original man page and some additional configure and Makefile hackage was contributed by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>.

This manual page was originally written by Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). This manual page has since been modified by Matt Davis.

See the AUTHORS file for a list of other contributors.

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🫶✨

this page was dated September 9, 2022, and it's part of the general commands manual, so go forth and resurrect some PDFs, icon 💅🌈

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