PDF Mix Tool

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About

PDF Mix Tool is a simple and lightweight application that allows you to perform common editing operations on PDF files.

Screenshot of PDF Mix Tool

Screenshot of PDF Mix Tool

Base operations it can perform are the following:

Besides, it can also mix files alternating their pages, generate booklets, add white pages to a PDF file, delete pages from a PDF file, extract pages from a PDF file, edit the PDF document information.

It is written in C++ and depends only on Qt (version 5 or 6) and qpdf.

PDF Mix Tool is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.

Other information about PDF Mix Tool can be found on the GitLab page of the project.

Installation

PDF Mix Tool can be installed from the official repositories of these distributions:

Packaging status

Other methods

If your distribution is not in the list above, you can try one of the following methods.

Installing from source

You can download the source archives of each release here.

To install PDF Mix Tool on a generic GNU/Linux system download the source archive of the latest release, decompress it and run the following commands inside the “pdfmixtool-x.x” directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
sudo make install

Install from Flathub or Snap Store

WARNING: these packages could be out of date and/or not fully working.

PDF Mix Tool is also available on Flathub and on the Snap Store.

Usage

Select the operation you want to perform from the list on the left side of the application.

In the “Merge files” tab:

Contribute

Screenshots

In this section you can find some screenshots of PDF Mix Tool while executing some common tasks.

Merge 3 PDF files

Merge 3 PDF files

Page composition (N-up)

Page composition (N-up)

Rotate pages

Rotate pages

Extract pages from a file

Extract pages from a file

Delete pages from a file

Delete pages from a file

Edit document information

Edit document information