PDF Split and Merge

PDFSaM

PDFSaM 2.2.2 basic version in visual reorder mode running on ALT Linux, with the PDF file of the Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution book opened
Developer(s) Andrea Vacondio
Initial release August 9, 2007 (2007-08-09)
Stable release 3.0.2[1] / February 27, 2016 (2016-02-27)
Preview release 3.0.0.M2[2] / October 4, 2015 (2015-10-04) -->
Development status Active
Written in Java, Java Swing
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Java
Type PDF utility
License AGPLv3 for v3, GPLv2 for previous versions
Website www.pdfsam.org

PDFSaM or PDF Split and Merge software is a free and open source cross-platform set of tools for manipulating PDF documents. PDFSaM basically provides a command-line and graphical user interfaces to the iText library. The command-line interface is written in Java and dual-licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2. In graphical mode there is a separate utility for each kind of task; these utilities serve as plugins to the main GUI and call the command-line tool for doing the actual work. The main GUI and its plugins are written in Java Swing and licensed solely under the GPLv2.

Thus PDFSaM needs just a working Java Virtual Machine installed in the operating system in order to run.

The distribution system

PDFSaM comes in two different versions.

The basic version is a simple desktop utility for the most common PDF manipulating tasks. It is freely accessible from the project's page both as source and compiled code. There are MSI packages for 32-bit and 64-bit MS Windows, .dmg for Mac OS X and ZIP bundle for the power users' convenience. ZIP bundle comes especially handy for use on the GNU/Linux platform: only a few GNU/Linux distributions have a PDFSaM package in their repositories, namely Debian,[3] Ubuntu[4] and Arch Linux[5] (as for April 2013).

The enhanced version is actually the full version of the program, including some experimental features. It comes in 3 different purchasing options, with varying features for each. Up until version 3 of PDFSam, the source code was available from the project's SourceForge page under the GPL, but the author of the software did not openly distribute the enhanced version's ready-made packages. In order to set up a working environment one had to either compile this version from source, or make a donation to the project (thus gaining access to the support forum and the compiled packages of the enhanced version). Currently, version 3 is not open sourced, and the only option to use it, is to buy it. Older version's (ie 2.2.4e and lower) source code is still available at the project's SourceForge page.

Functionality

PDFSaM has no capabilities of editing the PDF document content. It just manipulates the pages, and the whole document's attributes. It can also extract attachments from a PDF file.

The output PDF files produced by the PDFSaM 2.2.4 may be in the PDF versions 1.5 through 1.7.

Basic version

The basic version provides a subset of the program's functionality. It can:

Enhanced version

Compared to the basic version, it provides additional features that allow to:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pdfsam.org/blog/
  2. ↑ http://www.pdfsam.org/category/pdf-split-and-merge/new-release/
  3. ↑ Debian repository PDFSaM package.
  4. ↑ Ubuntu repository PDFSaM package.
  5. ↑ Arch Linux repository PDFSaM package.

External links

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