Hello,
PDFsam Basic 6.0.0 is here. This is a major version release, bringing new major versions of both SAMBox and Sejda, the libraries that make up the PDF engine used in PDFsam Basic.
PDFsam Basic 6 now handles a wider range of problematic PDFs more gracefully, files with malformed annotations, invalid color spaces, broken font dictionaries, or corrupted metadata that used to cause issues should now work correctly. PDF 2.0 files using UTF-8 encoded strings are also properly supported. Output files now always contain an XMP metadata stream kept in sync with the document information dictionary, which is deprecated in PDF 2.0 in favor of XMP.
On the usability side, you can now drag and drop a folder onto the output field and PDFsam will automatically suggest an output file path inside that folder. Output compression has also changed, instead of a simple on/off toggle you can now choose between Compress, Neutral and Uncompress.
The application has been upgraded to JDK 25 and JavaFX 25 and we’ve added accessible text and proper label associations throughout the interface to improve screen reader support.
Hello,
the new version 6.1.1 of PDFsam Visual is out. With this release we upgraded to their latest versions the UI framework, the PDF rendering library and the PDF engine library. We also fixed an issue in the N-Up task and added a nospace transformation for the [TEXT] keyword used in the Split by bookmarks and Extract images tasks. This version is free for yearly subscriptions and perpetual licenses valid for major version 6.x (keys starting with PV6). Other customers can ask for a 30% upgrade discount at [email protected].
Enjoy!
Hello,
we released the new version 6.0.2 of PDFsam Visual. In addition to the usual library and framework updates, we have added Dutch and Polish translations. This version is free for yearly subscriptions and perpetual licenses valid for major version 6.x (keys starting with PV6). Other customers can ask for a 30% upgrade discount at [email protected].
Enjoy!
The new version 4.1.1 of PDFsam Visual has been released. We upgraded Electron and the PDF engine and the render engine to their latest version. All the upgraded versions contain a number of bug fixes, security fixes and improvements.
You can download it from the Download page.
Enjoy
Hello,
we released the new version of PDFsam Basic where we upgraded translations and PDF engine.
We improved the handling of broken PDF files where the PDF engine has to perform a full scan of the PDF objects and we now handle correctly those files containing garbage bytes at the beginning.
As usual you can download it from the download section.
Enjoy
We released the new version 4.0.2 of PDFsam Visual. PDF engine and render engine have been updated. An issue affecting the Resize tool and the Merge tool when the Normalize checkbox was active has been fixed. Tiling patterns streams are now properly processed. You can download it from the Download page.
Enjoy
Hello,
we just released the new version 4.3.0 of PDFsam Basic. We upgraded translations, bundled JDK and Sejda to their more recent versions. A number of fixes were added to Sejda but most notably we fixed:
An issue with the Normalize page size in the Merge tool where outline and link annotation destinations may end up with wrong destination coordinates
An issue with Tiling patterns streams that weren’t processed during the optimization process. This could lead to missing pattern resources in some cases
Hello,
we released the new version 4.2.7 of our free and open source tool PDFsam Basic. In this new version we updated the underlying PDF engine with few bug fixes. PDFsam should now be able to better merge and split even corrupted PDF files but please let us know if you come across a document that we cannot process.
As usual you can download it from the download page
Enjoy!
