Ah, more on PDF management. It’s really tough when PDF is still proprietary and the only way to have absolute and fanciful control over PDFs is to purchase Acrobat Professional. But for cheapskates like the rest of us, paying top dollar isn’t just an option. Thank goodness for all the free stuff that can create PDFs.

However, a couple of functionalities that we’d appreciate if we get for free would be for us to be able to split and merge PDF files. And that’s what PDFSam gives us. It’s a program for free download. It’s Java-based so it’s more or less cross-platform. It’s small, quick and efficient.

The enhanced version requires your to register and donate a Euro. Quite an addition of features for a Euro if you ask me:

• encrypt your pdf files (RC40 bits, RC128 bits, AES128 bits) and set permissions on them.
• add a pdf cover or footer (or both) to your pdf documents.
• mix alternate pages taken from two pdf documents in straight or reverse order into a single document.
• save and load your environment to automatize your recurrent jobs.
• manage pdfsam settings and set an environment to load at start up.

Download PDFSam here.

Via Lifehacker