Category Archives: Windows

Good PDF Editor for Windows


Which tool do you use when you edit PDF? I means split or merge pdf files and page rotation, and page reordering as “edit”. I frequently use such tool to compose pdf file from several Excel or PDF files.

I recommend Free PDF Tools for editing task. It is really functional tool.

Main Feature

Merge PDF Files
We can merge some PDF files into one PDF file.
Split One PDF File or Reorder Pages
PDF から 必要なページのみを ほしい順序で 抽出することができます。
Encrypt and Decrypt
パスワードをつけて暗号化することができます。 単に暗号化するだけではなく 詳細なオプションをつけることもできます。
Rotate and Clip
使ったことはないですが、 ページを回転させたり、 切り抜いたりすることができます。
Reformat
PowerPoint のように、 メモ欄と罫線つきにした PDF を作ったりできます。 使ったことはありません。
Edit Header and Footer
We can add page number or margin, etc.
Set Watermark from Letter or Image
We can add watermark of letters or image, and add hyperlink to image watermark.
Convert PDF to Image and Image to PDF
We can convert PDF to image and image to PDF.

There are more features outside of the above.


ruby multi varsion control with pik


pik is a multi version control tool, which can be used in windows. When the time I wrote this article, pik on github says No longer maintained but I prefer to use pik on windows.

Pitfall

Tested on Windows 7 32bit.

Execute msi installer and install it to windows, but you can’t use pik. Some modification are required.

First, get new installer pik-0.3.0.pre.msi, which is the newest on writing this article, from the page of installer, and execute it.

It is installed into C:\pik as default. Then, open C:\pik\pik.bat and change %HOME% to %USERPROFILE% on 7th line.

In Windows, environmental variable %HOME% is not defined. %USERPROFILE% works well. It’s the same on Windows 8.1.