PDF Split and Merge Changelog

What's new in PDF Split and Merge 4.0.3

May 22, 2019
  • Upgraded PDF engine to latest version
  • Upgraded OpenJDK
  • Upgraded translations
  • Added a button to clear settings in Split modules
  • Added a botton entry to load a list of files from a csv/text file
  • Added a setting to set Compression disabled by default
  • Added the [TOTAL_FILESNUMBER] placeholder

New in PDF Split and Merge 2.2.2 (Nov 8, 2012)

  • Added recent environments menu
  • New MSI installer suitable for silent and Active Directory installs (feature request #2977478) (bug #3383859)
  • Console: regexp matching on the bookmarks name when splitting by bookmark level
  • Added argument skipGui that can be passed to skip the GUI restore
  • Prevent GUI location restore if the stored location is affected by JVM Bug #6189461 (bug #3477550)
  • Fixed sounds not playing with Java 7
  • New pdfsamstarter executable created with Launch4J
  • Console: fixed BASENAME prefix (bug #3571232)
  • ICEpdf 4.3.4
  • JPodRenderer 5.5.1
  • Updated langpack
  • New config parameters to set thumbnails quality and size

New in PDF Split and Merge 2.1.0 (Jan 13, 2010)

  • In this version almost all the libraries have been update, 6 bugs have been fixed, the new docinfo plugin has been added to the enhanced version (this plugin can be used to set metadata of the document like author, title, etc..) and some feature request has been implemented (DnD support on *nix systems, save/restore of the GUI settings when closing/opening pdfsam and saving the environment will save informations about the selected plugin).

New in PDF Split and Merge 2.0.0 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • Thumbnail quality has been slightly improved.
  • lugins are now shown in alphabetical order.
  • A new console command ‘pagelabels’, to set page labels on a PDF document, has been added.

New in PDF Split and Merge 1.1.4 (Jul 13, 2009)

  • New versions has been released. The [BASENAME] prefix has been fixed and the new iText version (2.1.7) should fix the many NullPointerExceptions reported the last month. The enhanced Decrypt plugin can now take an input prefix for the output files naming.

New in PDF Split and Merge 2.0.0 RC1 (Jun 21, 2009)

  • Fixed GUI interactivity when generating thumbnails.
  • New concurrent thumbnails generation model.
  • Console: fixed rotation of even and odd pages in concat command.
  • Console: fixed bug #2789961 (stripped invalid chars when applying bookmark name as output file name)
  • Console: fixed bug #2789961 (Level 2 Bookmark Name not used on first page)
  • VComposer: fixed bug #2793905 (Version combo showing "same as input document")
  • VComposer, VReorder: enlarged buttons to fit translations (feature request #2793954)
  • Console: fixed bug #2794818 (added system properties: pdfsam.log.console.level, pdfsam.log.file.level, pdfsam.log.file.filename)
  • Examples and xsd documents included within the distribution
  • Row tool tip in pdf selection table in case of errors or warnings
  • iText 2.1.6
  • Updated langpack

New in PDF Split and Merge 1.1.3 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • Document properties frame now opens in with normal size (not full screen)
  • Console: added the -step option to the mix command
  • Mix: added field to set the step option
  • Console: added complex prefix [BOOKMARK_NAME]
  • Console: fixed rotation of even and odd pages in concat command.
  • Console: fixed bug #2789961 (stripped invalid chars when applying bookmark name as output file name)
  • Console: fixed bug #2789961 (Level 2 Bookmark Name not used on first page)
  • Error sound if an Exception occurs before the execution of a command
  • Console: optimized merge algorithm when merging a subset of a document.
  • Console: fixed bug #2794818 (added system properties: pdfsam.log.console.level, pdfsam.log.file.level, pdfsam.log.file.filename)
  • Examples and xsd documents included within the distribution
  • iText 2.1.5
  • Updated langpack

New in PDF Split and Merge 1.1.2 (Apr 11, 2009)

  • Console: added the -d option to the concat command to merge all the documents in an input directory
  • Console: fixed bug #2540496 (unpack -d parameter)
  • Optimized PdfLoader
  • Merge, Mix: confirmation dialog if the output file already exists and the overwrite flag is false
  • Launcher: pdfsam-starter.exe now can take -Xmx parameter as a value (can be set as a Windows shortcut parameter)
  • Console: added the -d option to the setviewer command to set options to all the documents in an input directory
  • Console: added the -d option to the encrypt command to encrypt to all the documents in an input directory
  • Split: fixed bug #2679389 (broken "save environment" function)
  • Console: set compression level to BEST_COMPRESSION when compression is on.
  • Console: called the pdfReader.removeUnusedObjects(); when the reader is opened.
  • Added the document properties frame
  • Console: -help argument passed if no argument specified (Feature Request #2697689)
  • Console: fixed bug #2715101 (Exception executing split by size)
  • Updated langpack

New in PDF Split and Merge 2.0.0 Alpha (Feb 6, 2009)

  • Console: added the -d option to the concat command to merge all the documents in an input directory
  • Console: fixed bug #2540496 (unpack -d parameter)
  • Console: added the chance to set a starting value for the [FILENUMBER] prefix (Ex. [FILENUMBER13] or [FILENUMBER###13])
  • Added the VisualReorder plugin
  • Added the VisualComposer plugin
  • Optimized PdfLoader
  • Merge, Mix: confirmation dialog if the output file already exists and the overwrite flag is false
  • Java 1.6 required

New in PDF Split and Merge 1.1.1 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • This release fixes a bug with the split command so splitting PDF documents should always manage bookmarks correctly.
  • It adds a "split by bookmarks level" feature and a console feature to let you rotate pages when merging PDF documents.

New in PDF Split and Merge 1.1.0 (Dec 30, 2008)

  • A bug that caused OutOfMemory errors was fixed, the AlternateMix plugin was added, the plugin layout was restyled, some new complex prefixes were added, and three new console commands were implemented: decrypt, slideshow, and setviewer. langpack, looks, and itext were updated.