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PDFArranger v1.10.0

Andrew Lee on 11 Jan 2024
  • 81MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Jul 2023
  • Suggested by Midas

PDFArranger is an editor program to merge, split, rotate, crop, rearrange, duplicate and interleave pages. The program supports drag-and-drop insert of other PDF files, auto-crop whitespace, rotation of individual or any combination of pages, scale size (e.g. tabloid to letter size), and more.

The program can print "restricted" PDFs, split pages, export components of the PDF to separate files, or import standard images into a PDF document.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPLv3
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch pdfarranger.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: PDF XChange Editor, PDFtkbuilder
What's new? See: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/releases/,
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2023-07-11 08:26

A few operational changes in v1.10.0 I've noticed:

Loads more quickly (my perception)
It does Booklet correctly.
Split pages works easier.
New feature: Merge Pages (onto the same sheet)!

Cornflower on 2024-01-11 05:11

This note on the download page:

(As the Windows binaries of version 1.10.0 are supplied with Python 3.10, they are not released with 1.10.1. Windows users should keep using version 1.10.0)

Andrew Lee on 2024-01-11 22:48

@Cornflower: Noted, changes have been reverted. Thanks!

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PDF-XChange Editor v10.2.1.385

Special on 23 Jan 2024
  • 150MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

PDF-XChange Editor is a fast, feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of images to fully text-searchable, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop, comments/annotations, QR codes and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects and add/edit hyperlinks.

The program supports import and export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).

Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features can be used, but will add a watermark upon saving.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PDFXEdit.exe.

Optionally:
  • Disable most available "Pro" features via the File menu, select Preferences and choose Registration. Check the box "Hide all licensed features from toolbars and menus".
  • Additional language packs are available from the OCR language page. Extract these files to a temporary folder, launch the setup process and, when prompted, select the application folder (the same folder location as the PDFXEdit.exe).
Similar/alternative apps: Foxit Reader, PDF XChange Viewer
Xelitan PDF Reader (8MB)
What's new? See: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor/history
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2022-04-17 16:26

To fill out forms, simply use the typewriter tool in the freeware portable version.

tomcat on 2023-10-24 03:07

Alternatively, MS word versions from 2013 and above, can convert PDF into Word format, which you can edit as needed. You can then save the document as a Word file or as a PDF document again.

Stephen Leibowitz on 2024-01-13 17:02

Microsoft Defender gives a false positive for PDF-XChange Editor:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/company/news-press-events/view/312

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Tomahawk PDF+ v3.1.0

webfork on 24 Nov 2019
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Dec 2011
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Tomahawk is a full-featured word processor for RTF, TXT and other file formats. It includes tables, search and replace, HTML links, and drag-and-drop support for images. As the name implies, the program can import PDF files as well as export images and text from PDF files. Available dictionary and thesaurus available from the website.

NOTE: the website has gone offline, mirrors available.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Free for personal use (may qualify as abandonware)
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch TPdfPlus.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Jarte
What's new?
  • Fixed N-Up printing.
Latest comments
billon on 2016-07-18 17:25

Yep, but download links still work (not for long?).

NunoEFSilva on 2021-04-28 07:28

This is a fantastic piece of software.
Opens all kinds of documents and some spreadsheets, disassembles CHMs and PDFs and exports PDFs. Besides spell-checking for whatever language one can find dictionaries, its command of tables confers an almost total freedom of layout for one's texts and images.
It accepts a raster image as background of the pages; with pages setup in landscape it allows the creation of PDF presentations!
One may supplement it with tiny Fotografix which supports layers and does gradients; also a smallish spreadsheet like Spread32 under PStart (all in this site) and then one has a portable micro office that fits in the tiniest memory card.

shenzhou on 2022-10-02 22:46

"..the program can import PDF file"

No, it can't/doesn't, under Import, it only has tmd/rft/text/text unicode options only.

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