Comment by SpacemannSpiff
6 hours ago
Pdftk has been been around for many years, and does exactly the same things. Why reinvent the wheel?
6 hours ago
Pdftk has been been around for many years, and does exactly the same things. Why reinvent the wheel?
> Every time someone reinvents the wheel, it becomes a little rounder.
Not sure if this particular library is an improvement, but even if it serves nothing but the author’s enjoyment, or education, it’s a win.
It’s not open-source, so practically the question is equivalent to “why reinvent the wheel by creating libreoffice when there’s a perfectly good Microsoft office suite out there”
The server component is under GNU GPL: https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-license/
It makes sense to me. They made a PDF library for Python first. Having a PDF library for your preferred language is a good thing.
And it’s natural to then build a cli tool on top of the library they already made.
This was my first thought, but after reading the comments here, I see I had no idea how many other alternatives already existed, so why not add another one.