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Flavio

Jun 5, 2022

Board: Features
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Compress, merge and split PDFs. Also rearrange pages with drag and drop

Flavio

Jun 5, 2022

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abcJun 6, 2022

i upload it somewhere in the internet for merging. i split with microsoft print to pdf by printing the pages i want

Milivoje SavicSep 21, 2022

Pdf arranger is a great free & open source app that does just what you need. Sumatrapdf should try to stay a dedicated reader app, small and fast.

abcNov 21, 2022

Milivoje Savic: editing also is great with Xodo

Milivoje SavicNov 21, 2022

abc: xodo is online service (one of many). Pdf arranger is standalone (offline) app.

dominiosclaveNov 4, 2022

pdfsam is an alternative, obvious is more great we can do this from sumatra, but I sure not view it in the future :P

Full NameDec 2, 2023

dominiosclave: Any PDF tool can be called by SumatraPDF with filename and page number (using ExternalViewers method) so there are literally dozens of ways that given the right commands an external tool can modify the PDF. The problem in this case is you can only nominate the one page or filename you are viewing. it is possible to then let SAM ask you for another file or which pages but that is specific to whichever single app is given the filename and page number. I use a "shim" command file to do that for me.

David GöhlerJan 5, 2023

When producing a PDF fro a long website, I very often have to cut out the last pages with advertising and additional article offers. So deleting and rearranging would be a very usefull function.

David GöhlerJan 31, 2023

As suggest by Milivoje Savic, pdfarranger does a good job (except killing the list of content when rearranging pages) and I changed my mind in building this into sumatra. But maybe Sumatra may use pdfarranger when installed by calling it via button in the interface. If not installed, it could offer a download.

Full NameDec 2, 2023

David Göhler: Any PDF tool can be called by SumatraPDF with filename and page number (using ExternalViewers method) so there are literally dozens of ways that given the right commands an external tool can modify the PDF. Which as you note is a much much greater CPU intensive task than a fast reader has to cover. And since bookmarks are not physically part of page objects then altering order breaks the embodied links.

Victor LevandovskyJan 10, 2023

Use Libreoffice Draw. Yes, I`m not mistaken. You can separate PDF by atoms :)

Benedikt LedlJul 5, 2023

Customers often send 2 documents that belong together as 2 pdf's, I would need them to be printed on one sheet of paper (duplex) so I would love if I could drag and drop a page of one pdf into the other.

Trendy VibezNov 30, 2023

It would make the application heavier and slower. It can be done in another app though.

Masoud SalehiDec 27, 2023

Also extract pages.

fred0708Feb 13, 2024

PDF24 creator, it is a propietary freeware and it has really everything in it.

Peter DedonderApr 17, 2024

SumatraPDF is a tiny and speedy PDF reader in the first place. I hope that it stays like that. Don't ask for features that - other PDF tools (performing very well and speedy) already have. - will make SumatraPDF "the Swiss knife for ALL your PDF needs" I hope that the author keeps SumatraPDF doing a couple of things very well and speedy instead of making it doing a lot of things badly and slowly. (changing SumatraPDF into bloatware) I can't downvote, but if I could I would.

Allen XuAug 21, 2024

Peter Dedonder can't agree more

IthillionJun 20, 2025

If you want a really nice, small, fast app to do that: you cannot really go past PDFArranger on Github. There is no real reason to pile it's features into SumatraPDF.

Rushil DharwalSep 3, 2025

If these features of merging, spliting and editing(also including annotations) the pdf, added in SumatraPDF, it would be make it more better since it is all what is required. It can be given as plugin for those who require it, or can access any online free service for that keeping the load and size of application approximately the same.