Written to be useful to someone deciding between two tools, which means saying where the other one is better.
The Split PDF tool makes one file per run, from a page range you type. How to cut a document into several files, what the range box accepts, and the typo that quietly gives the wrong pages.
· 5 min read
Merge PDF only takes PDFs and JPG to PDF only takes photos. Turn the photos into a PDF first, then merge the two in the order you want. Page sizes, file names and what to check.
· 6 min read
Use the Compress PDF tool to get under an email size limit, and know the trade: it turns every page into an image, so text is no longer selectable. Which level to pick.
· 6 min read
The PDF to JPG tool converts every page and has no page picker. Cut the page out with Split PDF first, then convert it. What the zip contains and what the image quality is.
· 5 min read
Where each tool fits. iLovePDF processes on its servers and has OCR; AstralPDF works in your browser and does not. Pick by the file.
· 6 min read
Smallpdf is a polished paid suite with OCR and e-signing. AstralPDF is free and runs in your browser. What each is actually for.
· 5 min read
Merging in the browser, what it preserves, what it quietly loses, and the two boundaries that trip people up: bookmarks and passwords.
· 6 min read
Extraction versus separation, why one page out of 200 can be surprisingly large, and the page labels and bookmarks that do not survive.
· 5 min read
Compression re-encodes images, so how much you save depends on what your file is made of. Why a text contract will not shrink and a scan will.
· 5 min read
150 DPI for screens, 300 for print, and why hard black text on white shows halos at low resolution. Also: there is no multi-page JPG.
· 4 min read
User password versus owner password, why length beats cleverness, and why a lost password on an encrypted PDF is genuinely unrecoverable.
· 5 min read
Removing a password from a PDF you can already open, done entirely in your browser. What it removes, what it does not do, and why signatures can look altered afterward.
· 4 min read
Type your text, click once, and every page gets a tiled watermark. What the tool actually does, what it does not, and when a stamped watermark is not enough.
· 4 min read
Converting JPG to PDF turns each photo into its own page in one PDF file. How AstralPDF does it in your browser, page size, page order, and what to check first.
· 4 min read
Fix a sideways or upside-down PDF so it opens the right way up everywhere. How AstralPDF's rotate tool works in your browser, what it rotates, and what it cannot do.
· 5 min read
AstralPDF has no delete button, but the split tool removes pages by keeping the ones you list. Exactly how the page range works, with the quirks worth knowing.
· 5 min read
AstralPDF has no drag-to-reorder view, but you can move a page by cutting the file into pieces with Split PDF and joining them in the order you want with Merge PDF.
· 6 min read
A free two minute test in your browser: watch the Network tab, then go offline and run the tool. What you will see on AstralPDF, including the analytics requests.
· 6 min read