PDF Arranger

About

PDF Arranger is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf.

PDF Arranger is a fork of Konstantinos Poulios’s PDF-Shuffler (see Savannah or Sourceforge). It’s a humble attempt to make the project a bit more active.

For more info see User Manual.

Downloads

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Linux and BSD packages

Install from source

PDF Arranger requires pikepdf >= 6. Pip will automatically install the latest pikepdf if there is no pikepdf installed on the system.

On Debian-based distributions

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-wheel python3-gi python3-gi-cairo \
    gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 gir1.2-handy-1 python3-setuptools \
    gettext python3-dateutil python3-venv

On Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S poppler-glib python-pip python-gobject gtk3 python-cairo libhandy

On Fedora

sudo dnf install poppler-glib python3-pip python3-gobject gtk3 python3-cairo \
    python3-wheel python3-pikepdf python3-img2pdf python3-dateutil libhandy

On FreeBSD

sudo pkg install devel/gettext devel/py-gobject3 devel/py-pip \
    graphics/poppler-glib textproc/py-pikepdf x11-toolkits/gtk30 \
    x11-toolkits/libhandy

Install PDF Arranger in a virtual environment

Create a virtual environment in /home/user/myenv

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages ~/myenv

Install PDF Arranger

~/myenv/bin/pip3 install --upgrade https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/zipball/main

Optionally create a symlink so that the app can be started from anywhere in a terminal with pdfarranger

sudo ln -s ~/myenv/bin/pdfarranger /usr/local/bin/pdfarranger

In addition, PDF Arranger supports image file import if img2pdf is installed.

For developers

git clone https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git
cd pdfarranger
./setup.py build
python3 -m pdfarranger

For testing see TESTING.md.

For Windows see Win32.md.

For macOS see macOS.md.

For translators

Translations are located in the following files:

• po/LANG.po for interface translation strings
• data/com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.metainfo.xml for repository integration
• data/com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.desktop for desktop integration
• config.py LANGUAGE_NAMES for native language name in preferences drop-down list

If you are not comfortable working with git, you may edit translations directly from Github's web interface. However, in the normal case you would contribute translations by following these steps:

• Download the main branch (see For developers)
• Checkout a new branch to save your changes: git checkout -b update-translation-LANG
• Run po/updatepo.sh LANG, where LANG is the locale you'd like to update
• Update your translations in po/LANG.po file, and commit them; do not commit changes to po/pdfarranger.pot which may have been automatically regenerated
• If possible, test your translation to see it in context (see For developers)
• Create a new pull request with your changes to the main branch

If you are editing mnemonics accelerators (letters preceded by an underscore), here are some additional guidelines. However, if you have no idea what this means, don't worry about it. Try to follow these rules by priority order:

• be consistent with other GTK/GNOME software
• pick a unique letter within that given menu if possible
• pick the same letter as the original string if available
• pick a strong letter (e.g. in "Search and replace" rather pick s, r or p than a)