Sudo apt update sudo apt install pdfarrangerĪs you can see, this is one of those applications for PDF editing, which shines for its simplicity. To use this unofficial PPA, open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/apps Older versions of Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions, such as Linux Mint, may use the following unofficial PPA, which supports Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10 and 16.04. PDFArranger is available in the Universe repository as of Ubuntu 19.04. Once the installation is finished, in the same terminal, we write the following to install the app:Īfter this, we will see that we can now search for the application launcher on our computer: Sudo apt-get install python3-distutils-extra python3-wheel python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 python3-setuptools To begin with we will install the necessary dependencies. We will be able to carry out the installation of this application by following the instructions offered on the page Project GitHub. When we edit a file it is not saved in the same file by itself. Changes are not saved unless users save or we export them. In this app we won't find an undo option.The program it will not warn us to save the file if by accident the button to close is clicked.You can also see some of the options in the application menu bar.Most of these options can be viewed by doing right-click on one of the pages.In this case you will notice that after adding several documents, the application will change the title of the open file to ' Various documents'. We can open several PDF documents in a single window to merge part or all of the PDF files. Application does not restrict us to split a single document.We will only have to select them and then drag and drop them in the desired place. The application will give us the option to reverse page order if consecutive are selected.We will have the possibility of create multiple files and merge them.We will have available the option of zoom in and out.We can select pages and export them as a new PDF document.Allows crop page / s indicating the percentage of width from the left or right and the percentage of height from the top and bottom.It will also give us the option of delete pages.Will allow us rotate the page / s to the left or to the right as we need.The general characteristics that PDFArranger offers us for editing are the following: But this consumption is minimized once the file is fully opened. This will take some time and CPU consumption to open the file. It will show us the document page by page. It can drag and drop PDF files into the running PDFArranger application or click the menu button to open the desired file with PDFArranger. You will need to know the exact page numbers that you want to cut or merge. So, use your regular PDF reader to read them, write down the details, and then use PDFArranger according to your needs. You cannot double click on a PDF and read its content. Keep in mind that PDFArranger is not a PDF viewer. PDFArrange is a humble attempt to make this project a bit more attractive, even though even the icons for both projects are the same. The latter has not been developed in recent years. PDFArranger is actually a fork of the PDF-Shuffler project. It is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. This is a small tool that we it will allow to split, merge, rotate and rearrange one or more PDF files from our Ubuntu system. In the next article we are going to take a look at PDFArranger.
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