Flatsonar

PDF Chain

by Martin Singer

Graphical interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk)

Broad permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-3.0 v0.4.4.2.fl1
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About

If PDF is electronic paper, then PDFtk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents, and PDF Chain is a nice frontend application to it.

Features:

  • Merge PDF Documents or Collate PDF Page Scans
  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document
  • Rotate PDF Documents or Pages
  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
  • Fill PDF Forms with X/FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
  • Generate FDF Data Stencils from PDF Forms
  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp
  • Report PDF Metrics, Bookmarks and Metadata
  • Add/Update PDF Metrics, Bookmarks or Metadata
  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
  • Unpack PDF Attachments
  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
  • Repair Corrupted PDF (where possible)

---------- DISCLAIMER ----------

Latest version of this software is very old and so it may contain bugs, so to be on the safe side make sure to NOT open any untrusted pdf files with it. For this same reason we have limited this application to only save files to standard locations: "Downloads", "Documents". You can also save to external devices (like USB pendrive).

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your documents folder
    --filesystem=xdg-documents
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • access to /media
    --filesystem=/media
  • access to /run/media
    --filesystem=/run/media

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.