PDF Split and Merge

I just released the new version 1.0.0-b3 and 1.4.0e-b3 of pdfsam.
Added an update checker to notify if a new version is available. Fixed win32 installer. Progress bar now shows percentage to give a better feedback to the user. Split now uses PdfSmartCopy to minimize output files size. Updated translations. Fixed 4 reported bugs.
I think these releases are more stable the previous ones and i’m planning to have just another release (release candidate) before the new stable release. As usuall please report any bug you find and i’ll try to fix before the next release.
Andrea

Hi everybody,
starting from today, with a donation of at least 1€ you gain access to the enhanced version forever and not just for 1 year. I already updated existing donor accounts.
I realized that I’m not going to make money with pdfsam and donations are not a real income source but they are more a symbolic support to the project and to the open source world. To say “thanks” to all those users who belived and supported pdfsam, and to all the future donors i decided to remove the 1 year limitation so, starting from today, just 1€ to have pdfsam enhanced and access to the enhanced forum forever!
Thank you for the support
Andrea

Yesterday releases are missing german and french languages due to an error in the script that generates the pdfsam-langpack.jar. I generated an updated version of the langpack downloadable here. Simply replace the one into the pdfsam “lib” subdirectory.
Andrea

The new versions 1.0.0-b2 and 1.4.0e-b2 are out!
In these release: a bug fix (Bug #1881243), updated documentation, mac dmg (thanks to Nicola Bigi), win32 installer (thanks to Apteris), fixed console exception messages, the new “unpack” command for the console (to extract document attachments), a new menu item “reload” to reload a selected pdf document (to reload a document once you set the password), xml input file for the merge console command can now have a password attribute, minor fixes.
Enjoy

Hi everybody,
The new pdfsam beta 2 will be out soon (probably the 2nd of march). In this release you’ll find some bug fixes, Mac dmg and win32 installer (thank you Andrei), tutorial, new languages and the new console command ‘unpack’ to extract pdf attachments. If nothing big comes out this will become soon the new stable release.

Plans for this year:
I’m planning to add a new unpack plugin to the enhanced version to support the unpack console command, a new enhanced plugin/console command to set the viewer options to the pdf document and some kind of meta tag editor. The mix plugin will be moved to the basic version and i want to add a document properties viewer to both versions. All this will probably take all the 2008 to be released.
As usual every request/suggestion is welcome.
Andrea

Hi all,
i’m working on the installation script using NSIS. Unfortunately i’m a java programmer and i don’t feel confortable with nsis script language. This language dosen’t seem easy and i don’t have much time to learn it so i tried grabbing pieces of code and i made an installer but i’m not sure about the result. If you know NSIS and you are a good boy please write me i really need some help for it.
Andrea

Hi everybody
Rosetta approved all my stuff so everything is available to be translated in any language. If you want pdfsam in your language or if you find some bad translation please check here. As usual you can also download the template, translate it and send it back to me.
Andrea

Hi everybody,
i released new versions of pdfsam (1.0.0 beta 1 and 1.4.0e beta 1). In these versions i fixed some bugs (documents are now loaded ordered), added a sort feature to the selection table (clicking on the table headers) and some other minor changes. The enhanced version now has all the features added to the 1.0.0 serie and some new feature (multiple file selection in Encrypt plugin, page selection in CoverAndFooter plugin..). These releases come (again) without win32 installers and without tutorials but i finally can start to work on it so, next release will have installers and updated documents.

Feedback:
I’d like to thank every user who sent me a feedback. It’s very important for me to know what works and what doesn’t so keep sending emails, forum posts, bug trackers and so on.

Feature requests:
I added to pdfsam any reasonable feature requested in these 2 years. I need to know what users need so please keep asking new features or improvements.

Andrea

Hi,
i released the new basic version 1.0.0 alpha. This is a complete refactor of the basic version, a not stable test version. It needs to be tested and there’s no win32 installer, no tutorial and translations are not completed. It’s only for those braves who want to test it while i’m finishing the enhanced version refactor, tutorials and so on.
In this version you’ll find a new console, new split by size feature, new combo to chose output pdf version, fields to input passwords to open encrypted documents, save and load environments, config file can be placed in ${user.home}/.pdfsam, log4j logging window, encoded exception messages, new merge page limit (n-) to merge from page n to the end of the document and updated libraries.
As you can see there are a lot of new features and they need to be tested so please report any bug you find.
I’m waiting the new language model to be approved in Rosetta so you can’t translate to your preferred language using Rosetta for now but you can find the model to be downloaded from the resources section.
Andrea

Hi all, i finished the console refactor and almost finished the main interface refactor. With the new release the basic version will have the same gui as the enhanced with the split and merge plugin, this will bring to the basic version the chance to save and load the environmant to speed up your usual jobs.
For both enhanced and basic version there will be a new option to set the pdf version of the output document, the new split mode ’split by size’, a new logging window using log4j, console exception messages coded and the chance to move the config file to the ${user.home}/.pdfsam directory.

OFFTOPIC: My girlfirend (the one who made pdfsam iconset) recently opened an album on flickr here but no one goes there to see her photos (her hobby) so, if you want to take a look and, if you like her photos make some comment.. you are welcome