what in fedora rawhide replaces "pdftk" for extracting pages from PDF file?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 04:39 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Ter, 2014-04-22 at 20:45 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: 
> > On 04/22/2014 08:06 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > On Ter, 2014-04-22 at 18:39 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: 
> > >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:37:26AM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > >>> Port pdftk to openjdk? 
> > > 
> > >> I am not sure if there is really anything to port.  At
> > >> http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk-on-redhat-or-centos/
> > >> you can find pdftk-2.02-1.el6.src.rpm.  I do not now about rawhide
> > >> but out of curiosity I tried on a Fedora 20 installation:
> > >>
> > >>    rpmbuild --rebuild pdftk-2.02-1.el6.src.rpm
> > >>
> > >>   OTOH after light testing
> > >> pdftk binary seems to work just fine and it appears to be somwewhat
> > >> faster then the one from pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 (the last one
> > >> available on Fedora 64-bits mirrors) although I did not try to do any
> > >> measurements.
> > > 
> > > So pdftk 2.02 already port to openjdk ! , 
> > > we could undeprecated pdftk [1] and update to 2.02, checking pdftk.spec
> > > from 2.02 is pretty cool spec 
> > 
> > No, it isn't.  It still uses gcj, still bundles lots of java.
> 
> Sorry , 
> I don't know where I had my mind 
> BuildRequires: gcc
> BuildRequires: gcc-java
> BuildRequires: libgcj
> BuildRequires: libgcj-devel
> BuildRequires: gcc-c++
> #Requires: jre-gcj
> Requires: libstdc++ libgcj
> 
> so I was trying rebuild pdftk-1.44-11.fc19 with openjdk , when I mixed
> up things compiling pdftk.spec ends up with 
> 
> attachments.cc:33:21: fatal error: gcj/cni.h: No such file or directory
> #include <gcj/cni.h>
>                      ^
> when I saw that pdftk have a major update, I though in a miracle :) 

The reason for the retirement of pdftk was discussed on devel@ not so
long back, if anyone wants any more context:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196367.html
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