We just released the version 4.1.4 of PDFsam Basic. In this release we upgraded the bundled JDK to the latest Adopt OpenJDK 11.0.8, we have updated Sejda to its latest version with few bug fixes. We also updated the translations and fixed few bugs.
You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!
PDFsam Visual 2.1.5 and PDFsam Basic 4.1.3
How to rotate PDF and save changes in Adobe Reader
The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF viewer and does not allow to modify PDF files. Rotating a PDF and save changes would require to save a modified version of the PDF file, this is a premium feature available in Acrobat DC.
PDFsam Basic 4.1.2 with Mac notarization
We just released the new PDFsam Basic 4.1.2. The main goal for this release was to provide a notarized .dmg package for MacOS so we did that (and it wasn’t really straightforward). We also upgraded Sejda and SAMBox, the underlying PDF engines, to their latest versions. We fixed few bugs in there and we improved the merge of AcroForms in some edge cases.
You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!
How to combine PDF files without Acrobat for free
PDFsam Basic is the most popular offline PDF merger. No need to upload or share your PDF documents, keep them safe on your computer, away from prying eyes and easily merge them with PDFsam Basic. Completely free and open source, without time limits, without watermarks, simply free.
New PDFsam Basic 4.0.5
We just released the new 4.0.5 of PDFsam Basic, you can download it from the download page.
We updated the bundled jdk to the latest version 11.0.5, updated translations and fixed an issue some users where getting when launching PDFsam on Windows:
Exception in thread “WindowsNativeRunloopThread” java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.staticScreen_getScreens(Native Method) at com.sun.glass.ui.Screen.initScreens(Screen.java:412) at com.sun.glass.ui.Application.lambda$run$1(Application.java:152)
For those interested in this issue there is some discussion on Stackoverflow, the openjfx-dev mailing list and the bug report we opened.
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Save and load the list of PDF files from a CSV or TXT list
Saving and loading the list of PDF files to and from a CSV file was a feature that users kept requesting from time to time. The idea is to speed up some recurring job, in case you always have to deal with the same or similar set of files, but also being able to quickly load a list of PDF files exported by some other software.
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PDFsam Basic 4.0.3 is out!
We just released the new version 4.0.3 of PDFsam Basic. You can now load a list of PDF files from a csv/text file, we added a [TOTAL_FILESNUMBER] placeholder, a Clear button to the Split modules to clear settings, we upgraded the PDF engine, translations and bundled OpenJDK and we added a setting to disable default PDF compression.
You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!
White screen running PDFsam Basic on Windows
Since the release of PDFsam Basic 4 we had some support requests regarding the application being unusable and starting with a white screen on Windows.
After some investigation we found some tickets on the openjdk bug tracker here, here and few others, we tested the proposed workaround and it seems to have fixed the issue for those users experiencing the white screen.
PDFsam Basic 4.0.0
A Few days ago we published the new major version 4.0.0 of PDFsam Basic. Beside the usual upgrades to the PDF engine and translations, few bug fixes and minor improvements, the main objective was to create a standalone self-contained application.
TL;DR
Some of you have written concerned about the new Java policy in which Oracle will not provide free updates to commercial entities as of January 2019. We decide to implement a batteries included solution, switching to OpenJDK 11 and creating a jlinked version of the Java runtime that is now included in PDFsam Basic 4.0.0.