yikes, sounds as if I need further information - or need to keep studying ... ... ... ;-)
Please update re. this / these tks whenever; I'll stay tuned ;-) Ah, acronyms ;-) tk := http://www.acronymfinder.com/TK.html (well, while waiting to understand all this, my mind tends to wander - puns are so much fun :-) ) On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Girvin Herr wrote: > > Felmon, >> Looks like pdftk is written in Java. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Pdftk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk> >> >> So the gui (Graphical User Interface) is whatever the Java Runtime >> Environment (JRE) interfaces with. From my experience, it isn't pretty, >> but functional. >> >> I noticed there are some other source files and some 3rd-party code in >> the package that I did not take time to investigate, and it takes Gcc to >> build it. But one of the big ideas of Java is that it contains its own gui >> code, so the programmer's effort is greatly reduced. I would be surprised >> if pdftk does not use the standard Java gui. >> Girvin Herr >> > > good to know, especially about the '3rd-party code'. > > makes sense the gui would be in java so it can run on various platforms. > > I don't however foresee myself invoking the gui unless I'm working off of > Windows or something. > > I'll look but I bet there's a command-line version for Windows too. > > F. > > > >> >> On 04/13/2013 11:24 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013, Tom Davies wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >> >>> I'm only familiar with pdftk as a command-line tool; thus I was confused >>> by the discussion of desktop environments. >>> >>> it does have a gui interface (or several?) and then there are the >>> Windows and Mac versions. I don't know what is used to make the gui >>> interface on Linux. >>> >>> Felmon >>> >> <snip> >> >> >> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted