PDF CanOpener is an Adobe® Acrobat® plug-in for detailed analysis and COS level manipulation of PDF documents. It provides instant access to information about drawn objects (fonts, color spaces, page location, etc.) as well as a COS level tree view for analysis and manipulation of the internal object structure.
This is an amazingly useful tool for any serious PDF user, from creative professionals and print specialists to software developers.
PDF CanOpener Analysis Features:
COS Object tree structure displayed in an easy to navigate Explorer format.
PDF CanOpener Spanner Tool identifies graphics objects on a PDF page.
Color coded object highlighting.
Cursor displays object type.
Popup info windows on hover (colors, fonts, location,
transparency,blending modes, render intent, image compression, and other object specific info).
Discover and identify overlapping objects with arrow keys or Ctrl+Click.
Navigate directly to the location of related drawing resources (fonts, color spaces, graphics state, etc.) in the COS tree with one click or through the right-click menu.
Save XObjects to a bitmap file, and DCTDecoded images to JPEG
COS Object Search Dialog provides text or indirect ID searches of the COS tree. Several options for controlling scope of search.
Stream Viewer allows the contents of any stream to be viewed in one of four formats, text (Unicode or ASCII), hexadecimal, XML or a rendered image (viewable objects only, page contents, XObjects, type 3 font char procs, patterns, and thumbnails). Entry point for stream editing.
PDF CanOpener Editing Features:
Add, Delete, Create, Modify, Rename, and Copy/Paste COS Objects anywhere within a PDF Document or between Documents.
Print any display element (COS Tree, Popup Info windows, Stream Editor)
Simple font embedding/un-embedding.
Edit stream data with the built-in stream editor or external editors of your choice (plain text, XML, or hexadecimal)
Import or export stream data from/to an external file.
Change stream encodings, or any encoding/decoding parameter.
Create Javascript icons from Image XObjects.
Preview changes made to stream data prior to writing the new data back to the file.
Easily create prototypes of COS Object structures.
Journey to the center of your PDFsYou'll see PDF in a whole new way.
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