KillerPDF

NAME

SYNOPSIS

KillerPDF [ file.pdf ]

KillerPDF [ options ]

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

For a complete manual of KillerPDF see: https://killerpdf.net/help.

Features

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High-quality PDFium rendering with four view modes (Single, Continuous, Two-Page with a book layout option, Grid), tabbed documents, and a split pane for two documents side by side

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Annotate: inline text editing with font matching, word-wrapping text boxes, draw, lines, highlights (saved with the Multiply blend so text underneath stays readable), images, and page-number / watermark stamps - all with per-tab undo and redo

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Built-in OCR (Tesseract bundled, no cloud): make searchable PDFs, OCR a page or region to the clipboard, extract all text; extra languages download on demand

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Organize pages: merge, split, insert, rotate, crop, extract, delete, drag-and-drop reordering; drop a folder or .zip onto the window to merge its contents

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Transform: rotate, scale, flip, deskew by drawing a level line, perspective correction for photographed pages, and a LEVELS section (black point, white point, midtones) for pale scans

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Forms: fill text, checkbox, radio, and comb fields as live controls and save back; digital signatures with a cloud certificate (Certum SimplySign), plus drawn or imported signatures and initials

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Print with a real in-app preview, paper size and source selection, scale / position / margins / pages-per-sheet options at 300 DPI; Save Flattened rasterizes to a fully uneditable PDF

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Full-text search with highlighting, and column-aware text selection that copies multi-column pages in reading order

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Night-mode invert (per pane in split view), thirteen themes - four of them (Dark, Light, Black and 98SE) with six live accent colors each, 33 looks in all - toolbar styles, and a resizable sidebar that docks left or right

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Localized UI in 11 languages (contribute via TRANSLATING.md); full keyboard shortcut overlay on F1 with list and visual keyboard views

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Opens password-protected PDFs (prompts instead of erroring) and repairs damaged ones

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Standards-safe saves: every release is validated with veraPDF across a 2,900-file conformance corpus with a zero-regressions bar - see validation/RESULTS.md

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Local-only: no account, no telemetry, no phone-home

OPTIONS

Start KillerPDF.

file.pdf

PDF file to open.

options

options. See: https://killerpdf.net/help#cli for a complete description of all command line options.

-h

usage message.

-i

install the KillerPDF command to the 'Desktop'.

-u

uninstall the KillerPDF shortcut from 'Desktop'.

-V

print program version.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

version message displayed.

FILES

etc/KillerPDF.cfg

configuration file of KillerPDF. This file is updated when settings in the KillerPDF application are changed and saved.

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

NOTES

See the mentioned web pages to view the complete KillerPDF description.

BUGS

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.