{"id":9308,"date":"2019-09-05T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:08:11","slug":"pdf-split-and-merge-4-0-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/pdf-split-and-merge-4-0-4-released\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF Split and Merge 4.0.4 Released (How to Install)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9309\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PDF Split and Merge (PDFsam) is an open-source and easy-to-use desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files.<\/p>\n<p>PDFsam is available in Ubuntu universe repository. However, it&#8217;s always old and won&#8217;t receive future software updates.<\/p>\n<p>The latest release at the moment of writing is PDFsam 4.0.4 released a day ago with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgraded PDF engine (Sejda) to latest version (3.2.84)<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded AdoptOpenJDK to latest version (11.0.4)<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded translations<\/li>\n<li>Drag and drop of directories now asks the user if he wants to also add PDFs in subdirectories<\/li>\n<li>Numerical sort of file names starting with digits<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a couple of bugs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic-600x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic-600x364.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic-450x273.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-basic.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install PDF Split and Merge 4.0.4 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The software offers official <b>.deb<\/b> package for <code>64-bit<\/code> Ubuntu available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/github.com\/torakiki\/pdfsam\/releases' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download PDFsam (.deb)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grab the <code>pdfsam_x.x.x_amd64.deb<\/code> package and install it either via <b>Gdebi<\/b> (install it from Ubuntu Software) or just by double-clicking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-viagdebi-600x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-viagdebi-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-viagdebi-450x275.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-viagdebi-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdfsam-viagdebi.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, launch it from system application menu and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/open-pdfsam-450x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/open-pdfsam-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/open-pdfsam.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDF Split and Merge (PDFsam) is an open-source and easy-to-use desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files. PDFsam is available in Ubuntu universe repository. However, it&#8217;s always old and won&#8217;t receive future software updates. The latest release at the moment of writing is PDFsam 4.0.4 released a day ago with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,6],"tags":[1586,1783],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","category-news","tag-pdf-mix-tool","tag-pdf-split-and-merge"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}