The installed man page for pdftk already contains the formatted text, which yields to garbage when "man" tries to format it again. Attached is a changed ebuild which fixes this. Besides, pdftk-1.41 is in Portage for more than one year now and doesn't have any open bugs regarding a stable environment, so please mark stable. It works fine for me on amd64. The attachments also include a fix for bug 209802.
Created attachment 162975 [details] New pdftk-1.41.ebuild
Created attachment 162976 [details, diff] Patch to honor $LDFLAGS This fixes bug 209802 together with the new ebuild.
Fixed in 1.41-r1, thanks! The stabilization will have to wait a bit, though.