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Software · PDF: read, create, edit

PDF Tinkerer

Create and modify PDF files.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

File formats mentioned: PDF and PNG.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

At a glance

PDF Tinkerer is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (LGPL-2.1+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

This desktop app reads and writes PDF documents. It was created for a small copy shop in Germany. Features of this application are: Clone two or more PDF pages on one PDF page Extract images from a PDF file Export PDF pages to JPG and PNG images Glue two PDF pages together to print them with a plotter Add, move and delete pages in a PDF document Create a booklet of a PDF document, that you can print later Create a PDF document from JPG and PNG images, with one new page per image Available in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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