PDFChain

I like the PDF file format, almost every task I have collected in the form of a PDF. This format I choose to avoid disruptions when the document is opened using different applications that I use. Although its nature can not be edited anymore, but in this article I want to share a piece of software for manipulating PDF files that can be used free of charge on linux. In this case I use the free application on the Ubuntu operating system.

Application for modification of PDF files is named PDFChain. Actually PDFChain is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) of pdftk (PDF Toolkit) a software that can be accessed using the commands in the terminal. With the GUI is to facilitate the use of pdftk, especially for those who are not accustomed to using the command line.

PDFCHain Features 

• Combines selected pages from various PDF documents into a single PDF 
• Burst into a page 
• Add a background or watermark on each page 
• Add various files into a document 
• Set permissions on a PDF document results (Set the password, use enkripis, or others) 
• A wide variety of other tools like
• Extract the attached document
• Uncompress and compress
• Dump the data
• Update information
• Generate a PDF
• Fill Form

And many other features. Before using this app, make sure you’ve installed the PDF Toolkit. Because PDF Chain is just a GUI that facilitates you to execute commands with a graphical display.

On this post, I just wanted to introduce the general idea of PDFChain, I will write a tutorial how to add a watermark using PDFChain soon, because you will need some trick to do that correctly

Install PDFChain on Ubuntu

To perform the installation in ubuntu PDFChain very easy. Just open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get install pdfchain

Press enter and wait until the process is complete. After the process is complete, you can run pdfchain by typing pdfchain in a terminal or directly looking at the application menu. Easy right?