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PDF Tricks

Tricks for PDF Files.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: PDF splitting and page extraction, PDF merging.

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

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Split PDF (All pages or page ranges)” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Merge PDF” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) 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

A simple, efficient application for small manipulations in PDF files. Compress PDF (multiple resolutions) Split PDF (All pages or page ranges) Merge PDF Convert PDF In recent versions of ImageMagick has been added a security policy that blocks manipulations in PDF files. This affects PDFTricks operations. To correct this change the settings of your ImageMagick installation. Check the homepage for instructions.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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