Version of PDFSam in the repository is incredibly old

[Stefan K.]

Hi,

the PDFSam version included in the Ubuntu repos is very old:
available in Ubuntu Precise: 1.1.4
available from http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=32 : 2.21

Is it possible to get a newer version or are there roadblocks?

Workaround:
* make sure you have OpenJDK installed
* download the ZIP archive from http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=32
* extract the archive to some folder
* navigate to said folder in a file manager
* right click and open with OpenJDK

[Stefan K. (astron)]

Sorry, last step should have read:
"* right click the .jar file, and from the context menu choose Open with OpenJDK"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar (chandra)]

+1 from me. I have followed the instructions at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9109328&postcount=5

but would prefer not to have a workaround.

Thanks.

[Charles Boling (junk07+launchpad)]

Existing version no longer works at all in current Ubuntu 13.04 build. It now *needs* to be replaced.

Overlaying it w/ 2.2.2 as discussed above solved the problem. Looks like this could be an easy fix for the right person!

[theghost (theghost)]

It's the curse of Debian :)
Even Debian sid (unstable) still has 1.1.4.
The package maintainers are discussing the upgrade.
So when Debian has a new version, Ubuntu will get a new version too, when the packages for a new release are synced.
Seems like we have to wait, some more releases :(

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

In 2015 it's still very old.