PDF Tricks

Tricks for PDF Files

A simple, efficient application for small manipulations in PDF files.

Features

• Compress PDF (multiple resolutions)
• Split PDF (All pages or page ranges)
• Merge PDF
• Convert PDF

Donate

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Developing and Building

If you want to hack on and build PDF Tricks yourself, you'll need the following dependencies:

• libgtk-3-dev
• libgranite-dev
• meson
• valac
• ghostscript

Run meson build to configure the build environment and run ninja test to build and run automated tests

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja test

To install, use ninja install, then execute with com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks

sudo ninja install
com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks

ImageMagick

In recent versions of ImageMagick has been added a security policy that blocks manipulations in PDF files. This affects PDFTricks operations. To correct this change the settings of your ImageMagick installation.

Find and edit the configuration file.

/etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml

To check the ImageMagick version:

convert --version

Find the line that contains the rule for PDF files:

<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />

And change to:

<!-- <policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" /> -->

And ready!

Install with Flatpak

Install:

flatpak install flathub com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks

Run:

flatpak run com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks

Credits

• Fatih20
• FreaxMATE