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Features offered beyond my expectations. Complete and fully functional with Linux Mint 21.2 XFCE
Works perfectly LM 19.3 . PDF-Shuffler & PDF Arranger failed drag & drop from /tmp/mozilla_myusername0 which is where my temp PDF's are stored when I open them in Ockular. I opened a bunch of PDF's that I wanted to merge & save. PDF-Shuffle also choked on attempted merge. pdfsam has an awesome, informative pdf list that shows # of pages per pdf & allows you to rearrange them. Icing on the cake was the ability to auto-generate in index page.
Works great for splitting and merging files which is mostly what I use it for. The program is easy to work with. There is a newer version for LMDE 4 available at the PDF Sam website (4.1.1) that installs easily. Uninstall the older version before installing the updated one (install didn't work until i did that).
All I have done with this so far is merge 3 pdfs into 1. That said, the interface looks awesome, and I had no trouble installing it on Linux Mint Ubuntu 19.2 (Tina). And it did the one thing I asked it to quickly. Really, the take-away is just to confirm that this works fine on MINT 19.2...
Trying in a new Linux Mint Mate 19.2 install and initial trials indicate it's working fine without the java modification mentioned in previous reviews. Screeenshot is old, so the interface is drastically updated, but the functions are there.
Won't do anything in Mint 18.3 other than show opening frame with windows. Appears to have no means to open a pdf file to work on it, which makes it quite useless.
Have used since Mint 17. Now on Mint 19 it didn't work at first -> it won't go past the splash screen. If you are facing the same issue then change the default to Java 8, as pdfsam uses it rather than the Java 11 which is deault on Mint 19. Run $sudo update-alternatives --config java. Then select the right option for Java 8. For me it was #2. The software is powerful and works well.
In Mint 19, Java 8 has to be the default. Do this with 'sudo update-alternatives --config java'
I splitted a large pdf at bookmarks level 2, worked great thank you! LM18.3 Sylvia 64bit
ne fonctionne pas sous Mint19 xfce64b le splashscreen s'affiche une fraction de seconde puis plus rien. (idem avec le .deb du site web)
Often succeeds in splitting/merging pdf's. Watch out with letting 'overwrite' On and not changing the target file name though whenst doing several jobs...
Efficient split and merge tool with simple user interface that makes tasks completed in few steps. Quite small, stable and multilingual. Recommended for PDF editing.