PDFtk hanging on MacOS Sierra

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Nathan Hazzard picture Nathan Hazzard · Sep 28, 2016 · Viewed 15k times · Source

PDFtk Server seems to be hanging indefinitely on MacOS Sierra. Looks similar to the problem it had on El Capitan.

I'm trying to run this command: 

pdftk test1.pdf test2.pdf cat output out.pdf verbose

And am getting no output, just an indefinite hang. Same with every other command I've tried.

PDFtk --version:

pdftk 2.02 a Handy Tool for Manipulating PDF Documents Copyright (c) 2003-13 Steward and Lee, LLC - Please Visit: www.pdftk.com This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions. There is NO warranty, not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Has anyone managed to find any workarounds for this?

Answer

Baoshan Sheng picture Baoshan Sheng · Oct 2, 2016

Use this version:

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg

Although it’s prepared for El Capitan (10.11), it also works on Big Sur (11), Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), High Sierra (10.13), and Sierra (10.12).

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