macosterminalpdftk

How to solve "pdftk: Bad CPU type in executable" on Mac?


I want to use pdftk but I always get this error zsh: bad CPU type in executable: pdftk I reinstalled pdftk and I changed the terminal from bsh to zsh as I found in my search for how to solve this error but without any success. I'm using the latest MacOS version "Catalina v10.15.4"


Solution

  • This version of pdftk works on macOS Catalina (10.15).

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

    The link on the website is not up to date. That means by clicking the download button on the website you get an old version.