Whether you use your computer to work or study, the portable document format or PDF for its acronym in English will be an unavoidable part of your life.. As we had done in previous articles, we continue listing more programs to manipulate PDF on Linux.
In general, for reading, making notes or completing forms, the readers that the different distributions have built-in, and even the built-in reader of the browsers, are usually sufficient. But, if we want additional functions we will have to search the repositories.
As we have been doing until now, we focus on programs that are in Flatpak format.
More programs to work with PDF on Linux
PDFJumbler
If you don't need to do anything more complex than cutting, pasting, rotating and reordering pages of a PDF document. this application written in Java is all you will need. You just have to use the mouse to move or interact with the pages or one of these keyboard shortcuts that are quite easy to remember:
- CTRL + O: Open file
- CTRL + S: Save file.
- +: Increase screen size.
- -: Decrease screen size.
- ALT + Cursor up: Increase page position.
- ALT + Cursor down: Lower the position of the page.
- del: Delete page.
- CTRL+Z: Undo the last action.
- CTRL+Y: Redo the undone action.
- CTRL + R: Rotate the page clockwise
- CTRL + Shift + R: Rotate counterclockwise.
The program is installed with:
flatpack run com.github.mgropp.PdfJumbler
and uninstall with:
flatpak uninstall com.github.mgropp.PdfJumbler
PDF Tricks
This application written in Vala programming language It allows us to perform the following operations with our PDF documents:
- Compress PDF files in multiple resolutions.
- Cut PDF files (Entire document, individual pages, or range of pages)
- Join PDF.
- Convert PDF to PNG, JPG images or TXT text files.
PDF Tricks is based on Ghostscript, a library that allows you to convert PDF files to other formats, display them on the screen and print them, and ImageMagick, a tool that allows you to convert images between more than 200 formats. Both are open source.
The program is installed with:
flatpak install flathub com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks
And it is uninstalled with:
sudo flatpak uninstall com.github.muriloventuroso.pdftricks