[TriLUG] Substitute for pdftk?

[Robert Dale]

I like VirtualBox[1] which is very much like VMware but both free and
open source.

1. http://virtualbox.org/

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Robert Dale

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:
> VMWare has a bunch of free stuff available...   not open source, but
> still free :)
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:
>
>> On Friday 22 August 2008 07:47, Alan Porter wrote:
>> > > but if that falls through I need a plan
>> > > B, because pdftk is integrated right into my business.
>> >
>> > Plan B
>> >
>> > Install a different distro in a VM and run it there.
>> >
>> > It's quick, dirty, and wasteful; but you should not have to waste a lot
>> > of time on it.
>> >
>> > Alan
>>
>> Thanks Alan,
>>
>> Yeah, I was thinking of keeping Mandriva 2007 on one computer, and having
>> that
>> computer do the work.  I spoze I could have made some sort of script or
>> even
>> client server program to automate the transfer back and forth.
>>
>> It turns out that I'm OK in the short run, because unknown to me when I
>> wrote
>> the email, Mandriva has rpm's for pdftk, and they work. Because up until a
>> couple months ago I was on dialup, my package management techniques are
>> 20th
>> century. Now that I discovered the ease of installing packages from the
>> Internet, I'll probably have a lot less problems.
>>
>> My long term solution is hopefully to work with Sid Steward to come up with
>> a
>> more idiot friendly makefile, and to add needed install documentation to
>> the
>> project. That way if I later don't have broadband, or if I switch to a
>> distro
>> not providing pdftk, I'll still have pdftk.
>>
>> Your suggestion reminds me I've never worked with virtual machines. My new
>> computer has a dual core pentium 64 and 8GB of RAM, so maybe this is a good
>> time to get into that. I'd prefer to go with free software. What do you
>> recommend -- UML, Xen, OpenVZ, coLinux, mkLinux, or something else?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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