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Suggested in the PDFsam forum.
For the visual modules.

• Start the application
• Open the log stage
• Close the log stage
• Click on the Merge module
  Ref: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-39133

The application spits out tons of warning:

WARNING: Could not resolve '-fx-text-background-color' while resolving lookups for '-fx-text-fill' from rule '.list-cell' in stylesheet jar:file:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_40/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar!/com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/modena/modena.bss
Oct 25, 2014 5:41:37 PM javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper calculateValue
WARNING: Could not resolve '-fx-control-inner-background' while resolving lookups for '-fx-background-color' from rule '.list-cell' in stylesheet jar:file:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_40/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar!/com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/modena/modena.bss
Oct 25, 2014 5:41:37 PM javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper calculateValue
WARNING: Could not resolve '-fx-text-background-color' while resolving lookups for '-fx-text-fill' from rule '.list-cell' in stylesheet jar:file:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_40/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar!/com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/modena/modena.bss
Oct 25, 2014 5:41:37 PM javafx.scene.CssStyleHelper calculateValue
WARNING: Could not resolve '-fx-control-inner-background-alt' while resolving lookups for '-fx-background-color' from rule '.list-cell' in stylesheet jar:file:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_40/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar!/com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/modena/modena.bss

Spend some time profiling PDFsam to find out if there are leaks to be fixed or optimizations to be done

to be displayed in the workspace menu

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/5
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-04-03T12:28:31.493

On the v3 beta, when trying to select a destination file for the merged PDF on the Merge module, I'm unable to select a folder without selecting a file as well. Clicking Open goes nowhere and if I enter a file name, I get the message:

(file name)
File not found.
Check the file name and try again.

I'd prefer to be able to select a destination folder and enter the file name in either the File name: bar in the selection dialog or the Destination file bar in the Merge module.

with a nice spinner or something similar.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/26
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-12T18:10:30.733

Add a panel or something where the user is informed about the Wiki, Forum and project page where he can fill a bug report

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/15
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-06-13T10:00:13.494

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/6
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-06-13T15:41:56.601

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/3
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-04-03T12:26:16.657

The selection table context menu should allow the user to open the documents with the system pdf reader

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/22
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-02T10:21:25.897

Posted on the PDFsam forum
The PDF creators I usually use (FreePDF, MS save as PDF) allow you to set a flag 'Auto-open saved PDF'. As soon as I save the document it will open in the users standard PDF viewer for print, visual check or a 'send by Email'. This is very convenient.

I think for 'PDF Split and Merge' this would be even more important as we usually execute complex operation on files that request a verification anyway.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/12
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-01-12T12:22:13.986

With jdk8 dev preview, clicking twice one of the button in the About window (UrlButton) the gui freeze

From the pdfsam forum:

The behavior of overwriting existing files is far from what is usual and what the user expects.

As soon as 'Overwrite if already exists' is tagged (which is default when you start the program!) this will happen:
Even if the output file does not exist I always get the message 'Please note that output files will overwrite existing files of the same name without warning. Do you confirm to overwrite?' This mechanism makes the user become inattentive. He will just say 'Yes'

Proposal:

• If file does not exist just write it (regardless of 'Overwrite if already exists')
• if file exists:
• if 'Overwrite if already exists' tagged: overwrite it.
• if 'Overwrite if already exists' not tagged: ask to overwrite.
• do not change automatically the 'Overwrite if already exists' tag (now done when untagged and the file exists).
• do not autotag the 'Overwrite if already exists' each time the program is started.

I'm aware of the 'Ask for confirmation when overwrite checkbox is selected' - this does not resolve my problem.

This request covers all plugins that generate only 1 file as output. For 'Rotate' and 'Split' a different mechanism might be more adequate. I never use those...

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/9
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-11-20T00:23:14.760

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/23
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-12T17:52:55.306

The default locale is currently hardcoded and PDFsam always starts using English localization (this is not true for the windows installer where the user has to select the language). It could be made a little smarter and set the locale to the system locale if available and to English as a fallback.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/18
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-06-30T11:58:02.823

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/10
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-11-27T20:45:23.487

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/24
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-12T17:54:50.193

The selection table should have zebra rows (white and light gray?) and a background saying something like "Drag and drop here"

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/21
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-02T10:18:45.539

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/2
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-04-03T12:25:54.131

From the pdfsam forum:
PDFs with an empty (length 0) password are usually loaded by PDF software without requesting a password from the user.
PDFsam correctly detects the password encryption and flags them with a yellow background.
It would be beneficial that the reload option gets enhanced to reload a file with the 0-length password decryption, if no password is supplied - or to try the 0-length password already in the initial loading of the file - otherwise there is no option (I can find) to enter an 0 length password.
Thanks

Seems that while the open file/files dialog remembers the scroll position, it does not remember the window position.
Please make it remember the latter or if impossible, please set the dialog to open in the center of the screen.

From the PDFsam forum:
Hi Andrea

First let me thank you for this great tool.
I'm deploying it by using the MSI switches.
Although updates are necessary and reasonable they are often a problem for company environment.

I would appreciate if you could make a switch to disable "check for updates on startup" in further versions.
The "check now" button doesn't necessarily have to be greyed out but the automatic update check is quite a problem for us.
As a workaroud we're currently editing the xml file but an MSI switch would have been way more elegant ;)

kind regards Chris

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/19
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-02T10:15:29.421

Running pdfsam 2.4.1e on Linux on the console with the following command:

pdfsam-console -o out.pdf -f scan18012014.pdf -f scan18012014_0001.pdf concat

This results in the following error message:

…
13:16:25,927 DEBUG  Creating temporary file..
13:16:26,030 INFO   /home/mosu/dl/scan18012014.pdf: 1 pages to be added.
13:16:26,036 FATAL  Error executing ConsoleClient
org.pdfsam.console.exceptions.console.ConcatException
        at org.pdfsam.console.business.pdf.handlers.ConcatCmdExecutor.execute(ConcatCmdExecutor.java:228)
        at org.pdfsam.console.business.pdf.CmdExecuteManager.execute(CmdExecuteManager.java:97)
        at org.pdfsam.console.business.ConsoleServicesFacade.execute(ConsoleServicesFacade.java:75)
        at org.pdfsam.console.ConsoleClient.main(ConsoleClient.java:81)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: null/PDFsamTMPbufferPWLEV1.pdf (No such file or directory)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171)
        at org.pdfsam.console.business.pdf.handlers.ConcatCmdExecutor.execute(ConcatCmdExecutor.java:184)
        ... 3 more

If I manually create a directory called null in the current directory then the whole command executes successfully.

I don't have any environment variable set that points to a temporary directory. On Linux this is generally not done because /tmp and /var/tmp are traditionally used for such files and are always writable to all users.

https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/3

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/11
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-11-29T19:56:28.024

It is cool program. A few suggestions I hope to see soon for improving merging that are easy to implement, but save a lot of work / annoyment:

• Make an option to arrange on date, it's really a hassle to arrange them manually when there are lots of PDFs, while automatically it could be done within seconds.
• Make an option to arrange on increasing number (1,2,3; not the computer name arrangement 1,10,100), even when the number is within or surrounded by text.
• Make items move continuously when pressing/double-clicking and holding mouse button, instead of one place. It already does this with Enter, but with mouse also is more intuitive. Maybe even add options for fast jumping with Home/End and PgUp/PgDn buttons.
• Make the screen move along when moving items up/down. Thank you.
  Have nice day. :arrow:

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/8
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-11-17T11:12:43.995

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/20
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-02T10:16:09.443

Showing the url where the update can be downloaded

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/14
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-02-20T16:06:52.633

This is a request for an ENHANCEMENT. This would help people who are working with a large merged PAPER document who will otherwise be desperately leafing through it during a meeting (or a quiet reading at home). I haven't seen the upcoming "bookmark tree" feature, but maybe it could also reference page numbers of the documents. There is a third point which I am NOT asking you to consider, but it occurs to me as I type this that very often the file names of the documents don't resemble the actual title of the document as it appears in the contents ... not sure what to do about that, if anything, but it might be related. Also, I DON'T CONSIDER THESE "FATAL FLAWS"! I am very grateful to PDFsam - it has DEFINITELY improved my life!

Suggested by a user:
My suggestion for your user Interface: can you include a customized size field in Split Module interface so that we can choose the size of the target files (Ex: 1.5 Mb).

Add an icon for the button in the About window

When the user selects a row in the selection table and opens the context menu there should be an item to open the file with the native viewer and an item to open the directory where the file is.

Allow rows reorder using drag and drop

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/27
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-12T18:11:26.121

When the application close ui status should be persisted and reloaded when the application starts again.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/1
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-04-03T12:25:05.998

From the website:
A visual preview of PDFs being merged or split would be great. It would avoid separately opening PDF files whenever I need to reference them to accurately split the files.

The PDF preview, combined with a more visual way to add break points where splits would occur, would be ideal. This way i know exactly where the PDF will be split all within the interface. This would make it much easier to use and much more user-friendly.

Thanks!

Change the license to GPLv3

• Add a LICENSE.txt to the projects
• Modify the current source files header
• Modifiy the template for the source file headers

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/16
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-06-24T17:21:02.796

Currently only Acrobat Pro can enable/disable this feature from my research. It would be a very useful feature to have so that I could make markups on PDF's without having to bother (or wait for) someone with Acrobat Pro to help me.

Add scripts to create an RPM package

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/4
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-04-03T12:27:37.170

Find a way to automate creation of a MacOS package

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/25
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-12T18:08:41.908

Consider changing the url to some kind of proxy to be able to change the actual url in the future, if needed.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/13
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-02-20T16:05:59.435

to log uncaught excaptions

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/17
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2013-06-26T11:58:16.647

Strings returned by Gettext don't contain apostrophes even if the original strings do

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1264709/convert-inputstream-to-byte-in-java

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/torakiki/pdfsam/issue/7
• Originally Reported By: Andrea Vacondio
• Originally Created At: 2012-08-22T16:25:38.701

Seems that while internal handling of path names that contain special characters seems to work, but they are displayed as box placeholders.

Add scripts to create an MSI installer for Windows

If there's a selection and the user presses Home/End or PgUp/PgDown we should move the selection all the way up or down