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.

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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!

PDFsam Visual 2.1.4 is out

Hi,
we just released the new PDFsam Visual. In this version we updated the PDF engine with few bug fixes and improvements, we fixed an issue in Merge and Alternate Mix with encrypted files, we added a new checkbox to the Extract Pages to let the task generate separate files for each selected page set. We also finally notarized the MacOS .dmg so that Catalina doesn’t scare the users away anymore.
As usual you can get it from the download page.
Enjoy!

PDFsam Visual 2.1.3 released

The version 2.1.3 of PDFsam Visual has been released few days ago. In this release we fixed few issues in our PDF engine and we modified the Customize result names fields so that the latest value used is automatically saved and automatically restored on the next run . 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.

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New PDFsam Enhanced 6.1 released

Hi,
we released the new PDFsam Enhanced 6.1 with many fixes and new features. All subscribed users will have access to the new version and will be notified by the application.
Here is a summary of what you can find in this new release.
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PDFsam Visual 2.1.1 is out!

The new release 2.1.1 of PDFsam Visual is out.

  • We upgraded all the underlying components (PDF engine, Electron, PDF rendering engine..)
  • We fixed few bugs and improved some error/feedback message
  • We added an option to automatically populate the output folder with the parent directory of the selected PDF file
  • We added a context menu to most of the tools, to allow the user to quickly set the output field same as one of the input files
  • The Merge module can now combine PDF files and images

You can get it from the download page.
Enjoy

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.
Enjoy