Welcome to PDF Chain

PDF Chain is a graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk). The GUI supports all common features of the command line tool in a comfortable way.

Screenshot

PDF Chain generates a command for the PDF Toolkit from the GUI settings and executes it on the system. Therefore the PDF Toolkit must be already installed on the system.


I hope you will enjoy PDF Chain.
Martin Singer

About

  • PDF Chain is for Unix-like systems
  • The GUI is written in C++ programming language, using the GTKmm library
  • The source code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3)
  • PDF Chain comes without any warranty!

Features

  • Concatenate selected pages of various PDF documtents into one
    • Select entiere PDF documents
    • Choose several pages or contiguous page ranges
    • Pick even, odd or all pages from choosen page ranges
    • Rotate picked pages (0°, 90°, 180° or 270°)
    • Shuffle picked pages
    • Set input passwords for various PDF documents
  • Burst a PDF document into single pages
  • Print a background or stamp on each page of a PDF document
  • Attach various files to a PDF document
  • Set permissions on PDF output documents
    • Set a user and/or a owner password
    • Use encryption (None, 40 bit or 128 bit)
    • Allow or restrict various features
  • Tools
    • Extract attached files
    • Uncompress / Compress
    • Dump data fields (ASCII or UTF-8)
    • Dump data (ASCII or UTF-8)
    • Update info (ASCII or UTF-8)
    • Generate FDF
    • Fill form
    • Flatten
    • Drop XFA