Appligent PDF utilities released (they're free!)

Appligent is offering six PDF Utilities for Mac OS X, completely free of charge. The utilities are command line applications that can retrieve< various types of information from PDF (Portable Document Format) files or allow the user to perform a Save As action via the command line.

The utilities are:

• APGetFormFields - a utility for extracting form field information from a PDF Form.
• APGetMetaData - will export XML meta data on a document that has been saved in or created by Adobe Acrobat 5.
• APGetBookmarks - get the complete bookmark tree with page numbers and named destinations.
• APGetPageCount - returns the number of pages in a PDF document.
• APGetInfo - provides text output of information similar to that found with Adobe Acrobatís Document Information feature, with several added statistics.
• APSaveAs - utility performs the same task as using the Save As...‰ feature in Adobe Acrobat. It is a garbage collection save that further reduces the size of a file.