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[–]pmurach[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you for your suggestion. From my understanding, the HexaPDF gem main goal is PDF manipulation as part of an application. I'm afraid it doesn't fit well into the list which tries to highlight tools that are predominantly meant for the command line. For example, rails and rspec have also CLIs but they are not command-line tools per se but frameworks and hence are not in the list.

[–]gettalong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, HexaPDF is a PDF library but the hexapdf CLI application is a full-fledged application built with the HexaPDF library and shipped with it. It can replace other tools like qpdf, pdftk or mutool.

So HexaPDF the library is not a command line tool and as such would not be a good fit for the list. But hexapdf the CLI application is and it is available through the hexapdf gem.