Pdf mix tool linux

Install PDF Mix Tool
on Debian

PDF Mix Tool

• Marco Scarpetta (scarpetta) Publisher
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• Utilities

An application to perform common editing operations on PDF files

Important note: you need to install an xdg-desktop-portal backend in order for the application to work correctly. Install one of these two packages based on your desktop environment:

PDF Mix Tool is a simple and lightweight application that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files.

Base operations it can perform are the following:

• Merge two or more files specifying a page set for each of them
• Rotate pages
• Composite more pages onto a single one (N-up)
• Combinations of all of the above

Besides, it can also mix files alternating their pages, generate booklets, add white pages to a PDF file, delete pages from a PDF file, extract pages from a PDF file, edit the PDF document information.

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Perform Common PDF Editing Tasks Like Merge, Split, Rotate With Free and Open Source PDF Mix Tool

Last updated June 15, 2020 By Ankush Das 12 Comments

Brief: PDF Mix Tool is a simple, lightweight open-source PDF editing application that lets you extract pages from PDF, merge two PDFs, delete pages from PDF files among a few other things.

PDF Mix Tool: A Simple Open Source PDF Editing Tool

There are several PDF editors available for Linux. I usually categorize them in two categories:

• PDF editors that let you edit the content (annotate, highlight, change text, add/remove images etc)
• PDF editors that let you modify the files by merging files, splitting files, extracting pages from files etc.

PDF Mix Tool falls in the second category. It is an open source software written in C++ and uses Qt5. It lets you merge two or more PDF files specifying a page set for each of them, rotate pages, add white pages, delete pages and extract pages from PDF files.

In this week’s open source software highlight, let’s take a look at using PDF Mix Tool.

Using PDF Mix Tool for editing PDFs in Linux

PDF Mix Tool does not boast a bunch of features but a handful of things that are incredibly important.

Merge PDF files

You can easily merge multiple PDF files while specifying the exact pages as well. It gives you the ability to tweak the number of pages, rotation, and also the option to reverse the order of pages to merge with “Alternate mix“.

You just need to click on “Add PDF File” to add the files and then edit it with the options available (as shown in the image above) and finally generate the edited PDF.

Rotate pages

You can rotate pages of a PDF file while merging multiple files or when simply operating on a single PDF file.

For merging files, you can refer to the screenshots above — but when you select a single file, this is how it looks:

Pdf Mix Tool Layout

You get a variety of options, but to rotate the pages, you need to select the “Edit page layout” option as shown in the screenshot above.

Add or delete pages

To add new pages from a different PDF file, it’s best to utilize the option.

But, if you want to add an empty page, you can do that when selecting a single file to process. Not just limited to the addition of empty pages — but you can delete specific pages as well. Here’s a screenshot that highlights the delete option:

Pdf Mix Tool Add Delete

Extract pages from a PDF file

In addition to all the other options, you can also extract a certain page (or all) from a given PDF file. You can then generate a new PDF file for all the extracted pages or make separate PDF files for every page you extract. It should come in handy in a lot of use-cases.

Other functionalities

With all the features mentioned above, you can generate an entirely new PDF of your choice, reverse the order, extract the pages, make separate PDF files, and so on.

It does not reduce size of the PDF file. You’ll have to use other tools for compressing PDF files on Linux.

So, it’s a mixed bag of things when you combine and use the options available.

Installing PDF Mix Tool on Linux

PDF Mix Tool is available as Snap and Flatpak packages. This means you may find it in your distribution’s software manager if it supports either of these packages.

Alternatively, if you have Snap package support enabled, you can use the following command to install it:

If you want to use Flatpak, you can use:

In case you’re using Arch Linux, you can get it from the community repository.

You can also choose to take a look at their GitLab page for its source code.

Wrapping Up

It may not be the most feature-rich PDF editing tool — but considering it as a lightweight open-source tool, it is a very useful application to have installed. We have also covered a similar tool PDF Arranger in the past. You may want to take a look at that as well.

What do you think about it? Have you tried it yet? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Install PDF Mix Tool
on Ubuntu

PDF Mix Tool

• Marco Scarpetta (scarpetta) Publisher
• Productivity
• Utilities

An application to perform common editing operations on PDF files

Important note: you need to install an xdg-desktop-portal backend in order for the application to work correctly. Install one of these two packages based on your desktop environment:

PDF Mix Tool is a simple and lightweight application that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files.

Base operations it can perform are the following:

• Merge two or more files specifying a page set for each of them
• Rotate pages
• Composite more pages onto a single one (N-up)
• Combinations of all of the above

Besides, it can also mix files alternating their pages, generate booklets, add white pages to a PDF file, delete pages from a PDF file, extract pages from a PDF file, edit the PDF document information.

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Install PDF Mix Tool
on Arch Linux

PDF Mix Tool

• Marco Scarpetta (scarpetta) Publisher
• Productivity
• Utilities

An application to perform common editing operations on PDF files

Important note: you need to install an xdg-desktop-portal backend in order for the application to work correctly. Install one of these two packages based on your desktop environment:

PDF Mix Tool is a simple and lightweight application that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files.

Base operations it can perform are the following:

• Merge two or more files specifying a page set for each of them
• Rotate pages
• Composite more pages onto a single one (N-up)
• Combinations of all of the above

Besides, it can also mix files alternating their pages, generate booklets, add white pages to a PDF file, delete pages from a PDF file, extract pages from a PDF file, edit the PDF document information.

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PDF Mix Tool

About

PDF Mix Tool is a simple and lightweight application that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files.

Screenshot of PDF Mix Tool

Base operations it can perform are the following:

• Merge two or more files specifying a page set for each of them;
• Rotate pages;
• Composite more pages onto a single one (N-up);
• Combinations of all of the above.

Besides, it can also mix files alternating their pages, generate booklets, add white pages to a PDF file, delete pages from a PDF file, extract pages from a PDF file, edit the PDF document information.

It is written in C++ and depends only on Qt (version 5 or 6) and qpdf.

PDF Mix Tool is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.

Download

You can download the source archives of each release here.

The source repository is hosted on GitLab.

Installation

Using Flatpak

PDF Mix Tool is available on Flathub. You can install it with the following command:

Using Snap

PDF Mix Tool is available on the Snap Store. You can install it with the following command:

If you want to open and save files on removable drives you must connect the snap to the removable-media interface (see this issue for more information):

On Arch Linux

PDF Mix Tool is in the community repository. You can install it with the following command:

On a generic GNU/Linux distribution

To install PDF Mix Tool on a generic GNU/Linux system download the source archive of the latest release, decompress it and run the following commands inside the «pdfmixtool-x.x» directory:

On Fedora install the following packages before the build process:

Testing builds (Flatpak)

A Flatpak repository containing unstable builds from the master branch is available. You can install the unstable version of PDF Mix Tool on your system with the following command:

The unstable Flatpak is updated after each commit on the master branch. Despite the name, it will be quite stable, but could include some incomplete features.

If you decide to use the unstable version, please report any issue you notice on GitLab.

Usage

Select the operation you want to perform from the list on the left side of the application.

In the «Merge files» tab:

• Add PDF files clicking on the «Add PDF file» button;
• Double-click on the entry of a file to edit it;
• Set page filters using the format «1-5, 7-10, 15, 19» or «1-5 7-10 15 19». Leave the field blank to include the entire file;
• You can use overlapping intervals, pages will be replicated;
• Set multipage profile for each file;
• Set page’s rotation for each file;
• Set the outline entry (table of contents entry) for each file;
• You can add the same file more times;
• Generate the output file clicking on the «Generate PDF» button and selecting the destination file.

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Screenshots

In this section there are some screenshots of PDF Mix Tool while executing some common tasks.

Merge 3 PDF files Page composition (N-up) Rotate pages Extract pages from a file Delete pages from a file Edit document information Last edited on 2021/04/24 11:07 UTC

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