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PDF Password Remover v1.1.0.2

Checker on 5 Aug 2014
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by joby_toss

PDF Password Remover disables restrictions from protected PDF files that prevent capabilities such as printing and modification. The program requires the user password in order to remove restrictions and does not include a password audit tool.

Note: Program has gone cripplware and will only work on the first page of a PDF. Seeking a mirror for the last available freeware version.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PPR.exe.

Note: It is recommended users edit the setup.ini file, specifying your desired output path (e.g. c:\documents, z:\output, etc. as well as relative pathways).
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ZoNi on 2012-05-22 11:27

Here is once more link for the latest freeware version:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q2u6ih

Hope this time my comment will remain here ;-)

ZoNi on 2012-05-22 11:33

One more link: http://min.us/mj1cfJLQ2

webfork on 2012-05-27 16:24

Thanks ZoNi -- note added to the main entry.

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GSview v5.0

billon on 8 Nov 2018
  • 34MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 May 2012
  • Suggested by payneCheng

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed, printed and converted.

  • Display, print and convert PostScript (PS, EPS) and PDF files
  • Extract selected pages to another file
  • Add or extract preview images
  • Graphically select and show bounding boxes
  • Supports English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages
  • And more
Note: Only the 32-bit version has been successfully tested for portability.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download self-extracting archive and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Download Ghostscript (32-bit AGPL version) and extract to the same folder (overwrite files if asked)
  3. Delete the following files:

    - Any files starting with setp32
    - filelist.txt
    - setup.exe
    - gsview\uninstgs.exe

  4. Launch GSviewPortable.exe
What's new?
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Use HTML help on Windows because Microsoft removed WinHelp.
  • Fix problems with saving registration number on Windows 7.
  • Fixes for Windows 7 x64 to correctly find language files and 64-bit Ghostscript.
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Fergus on 2010-09-29 13:45

I've done this, but I still get the "Register Now" nag. Pressing clears the nag, but it's awfully irritating. Is there a way of disabling it?

Fergus on 2010-09-29 19:46

OK managed to get a register code; use it once and hey presto away you go. BUT the code is written o a local gsview.ini which also incorporates named drive letters. Move your USB stick to another host machine where it will very likely be named differently and gsview.ini is suddenly broken -- you have to supply the reg code again. Very VERY annoying; not true portable freeware, at all ...

Ascend4nt on 2012-01-24 22:37

Setup is a bit more tricky then running a self-extracting executable, and dumping Ghostscript in the same folder. Here's what I had to do:
1. Download the GSView self-extracting exe and the associated Ghostscript exe
2. Open the GSView self-extracting exe with 7-zip or other archive software and extract everything except the files indicated in 'How to Extract'. (RUNNING the exe will install a non-portable version!!)
3. Create a 'gs9.04' subfolder in the folder that GSviewPortable is in. (it seems the name is usually 'gs' followed by the version #).
4. Open the Ghostscript exe with an archive utility, go to $_OUTDIR, and extract all the files from that folder into the subfolder just created (in this case, gs9.04)
5. Now you can run GSviewPortable

*Note: I can verify what Fergus says - Registration screen pops up on run. Not a huge deal for me

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JPdfBookmarks 2.5.2

webfork on 14 May 2017
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Nov 2011
  • Suggested by Cornflower

JPdfBookmarks is an easy way to add, change, or remove nested bookmarks in PDF files using an intuitive interface. The program has a variety of view, bookmark formatting options, the ability to extract links, and even optionally make bookmarks visible by default.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: Java Runtime Environment version 6 or higher.
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch jpdfbookmarks.exe.
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2010-05-25 15:11

I'd like Java and .Net categories...
Until then...

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RotPDF v0.80

webfork on 23 Sep 2017
  • 195KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jul 2004
  • Suggested by I am Baas

RotPDF is a tiny program to rotate PDFs by 90, 180 & 270 degrees with support for drag-and-drop operation.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RotPDF.exe.
Latest comments
Emka on 2013-12-23 11:39

Tried to rotate pages in a scanned magazine article, resulted in an error message.

webfork on 2013-12-26 19:42

That's weird that it doesn't work. Anyway, PDF X-Change (which I recommend) and X-PDFsam will both handle that.

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GUI for PDFTK v0.49

Midas on 19 Jun 2018
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

PDFTK is a command-line based tool for merging, splitting, encrypting, decrypting, compressing, decompressing and repairing PDF documents. GUI for PDFTK provides a graphical frontend for PDFTK.

Note: Under Windows XP, the program will report "The pipe has ended" after processing the PDF document. This is not an error! It indicates successful operation.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice.
  2. Remove $PLUGINSDIR and [NSIS].nsi.
  3. Launch guipdftk.exe.
Latest comments
Yucca on 2006-11-28 09:45

I much prefer PDFtk Builder v. 2.35 as a GUI for PDFtk. It's about half the size of GUI for PDFtk and I find it more functional (for example for reordering pages in a pdf).

See my post with download details and screenshot for PDFtk Builder v. 2.35 at http://portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3114&sid=9c95972690f60d86756bee5662f2d9ab#3114 .

-- Yucca

Billy on 2006-12-01 07:39

This is a spyware (scanned by Norton)!!!

spyware? on 2006-12-12 05:29

yeah, norton finds the spyware "Adware.Margoc"

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Swift PDF v1.1

Checker on 5 Aug 2014
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by AlephX

Swift PDF tranforms and combines images from scans, photos, downloads or any other source into a single PDF document. You can set the page sizes, adjust the margins, and page orientation.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SwiftPDF.exe.
Latest comments
Rekrul on 2011-01-16 06:06

Lousy program. Leaves a white margin around around every image, regardless of the margin and/or paper size settings. Also, it doesn't properly set the page size, so each page looks like a thumbnail image.

robzuc on 2013-11-07 09:48

The download link seems to show just an empty page

Checker on 2013-11-07 16:43

@ robzuc: Thanks ... links changed.

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PDF2EXE v1.0.0

webfork on 24 Nov 2015
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

PDF2EXE converts any PDF file to EXE, making PDF readable on any computer without PDF reading software. The conversion from PDF to EXE preserves the look and feel of the original document and includes optional compression. Note that PDF2EXE is based on Cool PDF Reader, which has attracted some comments disparaging the quality of its rendering engine. If you don't like Cool PDF Reader, you will probably want to give this a miss as well.

PDF2EXE also contains security features such as encryption of the shared PDF to help prevent modification, as well as disabling printing and image conversion.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Copy the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch PDF2EXE.exe
Latest comments
BruceW on 2006-11-14 06:45

Free PDF readers (Adobe's or otherwise) are so common and easy to obtain that I'm wondering how necessary it is to offer an alternative format, especially one that wouldn't work on Macs or Linux systems. If I knew for sure that my audience were all Windows users, I guess I might consider distributing .EXE files, but if it were up to me I'd prefer that everyone just had some kind of PDF reader.

decomp on 2009-01-12 04:50

12/01/09: PDF2EXE is shareware (not freeware) as states the website.

Wolfghost on 2010-05-20 23:17

Here is download link to Portable PDF2EXE 1.0.0.128
http://tinyurl.com/2u9srqe

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