Category: PDFsam Basic

You used the split feature to split your PDF file (10 pages 1MB) and the result is 10 PDF files almost 1MB each… something must be wrong, it should have been 10 PDF files roughly 100kB each right? Wrong.
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Sometimes it can happen that PDFsam Basic doesn’t start and there is no error message or anything that could help you understand what is the issue.
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They are Windows launchers for PDFsam Basic, our free and open source application to split and merge PDF files.
PDFsam Basic is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime Environment to run (pretty much like a C# application requires .NET framework installed, a Python application requires a Python interpreter etc etc). Read more…

We just released PDFsam Basic version 3.3.5 where we update the language pack, the PDF engine (Sejda) with a number of bug fixes and improvements and the Open button to directly open the generated PDF file (and not the containing directory) in case the task generates a single PDF file.
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Hi,
there was a compatibility issue with PDFsam Basic version 3.3.3 (and below) that was preventing it to start with Java 9. We just released PDFsam Basic 3.3.4 and with that everything should be back to normal and work as expected even if you upgrade to Java 9. We also added handy row headers to easily find the index of the added PDF files and the total number of added PDF files.
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We just released the new PDFsam Basic 3.3.1 with a number fixes and improvements, here is a list of what has changed. As usual you can find the new version in the download section.

We also have a new PDFsam Enhanced Spring Promo for the Pro and Pro+OCR packages!

And finally, we are updating our How to split PDF and merge PDF tutorials with the new settings and features we added in the latest releases, they will be ready in few days, and we added a short one to explain how to compress PDF using PDFsam Basic, give them a chance if you need a quick guide on how to use PDFsam.

We released the new PDFsam Basic version 3.3.0 where we upgraded our PDF engine (SAMBox + Sejda) to the latest version with a lot of fixes and improvements, we added pages selection to the Alternate Mix module, we added an option to normalize pages size to the Merge module… and a number of smaller changes and fixes you can see here.
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We released the new PDFsam Basic version 3.2.5 where you will have a reduced startup time, some new MSI property to drive the corresponding application setting during silent install, updated SAMBox and Sejda (our PDF layer) with a number of fixes, premium modules in the modules dashboard.
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Ehm.. we broke something in 3.2.1 and translations aren’t working, we just released a fix, sorry for that.

We just released the juicy new version 3.2.1 of PDFsam Basic where you can find:

• Alternate Mix now can mix multiple PDF files (and not just two)
• Extract pages now can batch extract working on multiple PDF files (and not just one)
• Added context menu integration to Windows and Linux so you can now right click PDF files and send to PDFsam Basic
• Run button and few others in the dialog windows are now the default buttons so Enter key should trigger them
• Important news are now shown once as a notification
• Some bug fixes
• Upgraded Sejda with a lot of fixes and optimizations

Here is the list of what is included and here where you can download it. Enjoy!