Cut PDF and Join PDF With PDF Split and Merge

Cut PDF and Join PDF With PDF Split and Merge program. This is a free open source software that is available as a basic and enhanced version.PDF Split and Merge is written in Java and it provides a Graphical interface (GUI) and a shell interface (Console). Being a Java program, it is platform independent and runs on every platform where a Java Virtual Machine is available.

While the basic version of PDF Split and Merge is a simple and stable program, enhanced version has more features than the basic version. the basic version is completely free while the enhanced version is “almost” free. The source code for enhanced version is available for free download and so you can compile and use it. If you make a donation of even say 1$, you get complete and unlimited access to compiled code, win32 installer plus the access to the support forums and to the features request section. We feel that it is definitely worth a donation of atleast 10 dollars per download as a token of appreciation for the work done by the developers.

Features of PDF Split and Merge Basic:

PDF Split and Merge basic has a simple and intuitive interface and you can do the following:

• Split PDF Files or documents into chapters, single pages, etc.
• Merge PDF Files or subsections of them.
• Extract sections of your PDF document into a single PDF document.
• Mix alternate pages taken from two PDF documents, in straight or reverse order, into a single document.
• Rotate pages of the selected PDF documents.
• Visually reorder pages of a selected PDF document.
• Visually compose a document dragging pages from selected PDF documents.
• Save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
• Manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.

Features of PDF Split and Merge Enhanced:

PDF Split and Merge Enhanced has all the features of the basic version plus the following:

• Encrypt PDF Files (RC40 bits, RC128 bits, AES128 bits) and set permissions on them.
• Add a PDF front page or an addendum (or both) to your PDF documents.
• Decrypt pdf documents.
• Extract attachments from PDF documents.
• set viewer options to a document to tell the viewer application how it should open the document.
• set the meta data of a PDF document (author, title, subject and keywords).

PDF Split and Merge is basically a simple GUI to iText library and it is made of 5 main components.

• A main GUI written in Java Swing
• A merge plugin written in Java Swing
• A split plugin written in Java Swing
• An alternate mix plugin written in Java Swing
• A console written in Java

The main GUI loads every plugin in “plugins” directory and shows them as node of a selection tree. A plugin sends a list of arguments to the console that executes the proper command.

To run the main GUI,double click the file pdfsam-CURRENT_VERSION.jar or type java -jar /PATH_TO_PDFSAM/pdfsam-CURRENT_VERSION.jar

If you face any issues, check whether you have installed a working Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher for the branch 1 and a 1.6 or higher for the branch 2.

PDF Split and Merge supports multiple languages.Language is specified in the file config.xm by the “i18n” tag, and can be set using the settings section of pdfsam. Language library is updated at every release with the latest translations available, check here if you want to translate pdfsam.

pdfsam-console is a command line application, which could be useful for batch jobs, server jobs. To run it, “bin” sub-directory has a bat script for win32 and a sh script for unix.

PDF Split and Merge runs on Windows, linux and Mac OS X. Free download the basic and enhanced version of PDF Split and Merge from here and enjoy cutting and joining PDF files.

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