{"id":6491,"date":"2013-12-30T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2013-12-29T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T12:15:37","slug":"pdfsam-another-free-pdf-split-and-merge-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/pdfsam-another-free-pdf-split-and-merge-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"PDFSaM &#8211; Another Free PDF Split and Merge Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I had recommended <a title=\"Merge PDF Documents with Adolix Split and Merge PDF | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/merge-pdf-documents-with-adolix-split-and-merge-pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adolix Split and Merge PDF<\/a> as a solution but if you&#8217;re working with PDFs beyond fifty pages (specifically for splitting) then you need to pay for the full version.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve found something that is functional although perhaps a bit slower. It&#8217;s called PDFSaM (where SaM stands for <strong>Split and Merge<\/strong>). It does rely on Java to work though which could be a security concern but does enable this utility to be used across many platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc).<\/p>\n<p>However, the software does come bundled with some extra software you don&#8217;t need so be careful and avoid just clicking through the installation. It&#8217;ll prompt you to install <strong>Soda PDF<\/strong> which you can opt out of as you don&#8217;t require it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, give it a shot &#8211; I only need this sort of utility every so often so installing Java temporarily and this utility when I need it is not a big deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I had recommended Adolix Split and Merge PDF as a solution but if you&#8217;re working with PDFs beyond fifty pages (specifically for splitting) then you need to pay for the full version. Well, I&#8217;ve found something that is functional although perhaps a bit slower. It&#8217;s called PDFSaM (where SaM stands for Split &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/pdfsam-another-free-pdf-split-and-merge-solution\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[452,2184],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-pdf","tag-pdfsam","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PDF-Icon.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}