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PDF Snake has all the tools you need to prepare your document for the printing press.
Cards is the easy way to create a sheet of identical business cards, post cards, stickers, etc.
Booklet reorders and imposes pages 2-up so the result can be printed, stacked, and folded in half.
Make Bleeds creates bleeds on documents that have none.
Shuffle rearranges the page order and rotates pages.
Grid imposes pages in complex layouts.
Monkey finds the optimal pattern to fit the most pages onto a single sheet.
Resize stretches and shrinks page contents to fit any paper size.
Rotate rotates pages by any degree.
Crop crops the edges of pages.
Flip flips pages like a mirror.
Overlay overlays the content of one PDF document onto another.
Nudge moves content around the page.
Header or Footer adds page numbers, file names, or other text to the bottom or top of pages.
Color Bar adds color patches for monitoring and controlling the printing process.
Stickers imposes a sheet of stickers with overlapping white space.
Calendar creates a calendar booklet from the imported PDF.
Insert Pages inserts pages from another document into the currently open document.
Gang combines multiple jobs into a single sheet that's ready for an offset press.
Cutter Marks draws indicators used to align cutting equipment precisely with the printed sheet.
Layers toggles layers on and off.
Expert Grid gives you direct control over positions, gutters, rotation, and creep.
Masking Tape places a solid vector rectangle over elements on a page to block them from view.
Select or drag and drop multiple documents at once to batch process.
Tutorials
Folded Brochure
Learn how to create a folded brochure for playbills, church bulletins, etc.
Business Cards
Learn how to create a sheet of identical business cards. Also learn about bleeds and how to combine multiple tools.
Variable Data Merge
Learn how to apply a list of addresses to postcards.

News

2026 June 17
Users have imposed 1,667,562 documents with PDFSnake.app!

2026 June 17
When customers give you documents without bleeds, use PDF Snake's new Make Bleeds tool to add bleeds two ways:
  • Enlarge the artwork to cover the bleed area.
  • Mirror the edges of the artwork into the bleed area.

2026 April 21
Announcing PDF Snake Desktop!

2026 January 8

The new Expert Grid tool gives you direct control over every page position, gutter, rotation, and creep. Even the most complicated layout can be quickly entered with the Expert Grid tool.

2025 November 4

Offset press operators can now reduce costs with PDF Snake's new Gang tool. By combining multiple jobs onto a single gang sheet, you'll etch fewer printing plates, directly saving money on materials and prep time.

2025 October 2
L-shaped registration marks have been added to the Cutter Marks tool to support Duplo and other digital cutters.

2025 September 21
The Header or Footer tool can now stamp with barcode font Code39.

2025 July 12
The Layers tool toggles PDF layers (Optional Content Groups) on or off, similar to Layers in Adobe Illustrator.

2025 June 3
Announcing a new way to automate PDF Snake with Zapier.

2025 May 16
The Cutter Marks tool now adds dielines for digital cutting machines.

2025 May 10
The Overlay tool now positions content in any corner or edge or the center of the page. Prior to version 6.256, the Overlay tool could only position content in the top left corner of the page.

2025 May 1
PDF Snake's new Cutter Marks tool makes it easy to add cutter marks to your document. Cutter registration marks are printed indicators used to align cutting equipment precisely with the printed sheet during finishing operations.

PDF Snake's Cutter Marks are designed to work with Zund, Kongsberg, Mimaki, Summa and other digital cutters.

2025 April 29
Does your digital cutter support JDF? PDF Snake now generates JDF files with precise CutBlock data for every imposition, so you can streamline your workflow and eliminate manual steps. Just download the JDF and send it to your cutter.

2025 April 24
Insert Pages tool can now repeatedly insert pages. This makes it easy to add a common back side to a document of variable data front sides.

2025 February 24
The Stickers tool can now impose on continuous roll media in addition to sheet media.

2024 November 1
Announcing two new ways to automate PDF Snake:

2024 August 22
New Insert Pages tool in version 6.214. The new tool combines pages from multiple documents.

2024 July 20
New Calendar tool in version 6.208. Creating a calendar with PDF Snake used to be a complicated, multi-step process. Now it's a simple tool.

2024 March 1
New Stickers tool in Version 6.180. The Stickers tool tightly packs odd shapes onto each sheet to minimize waste.

What version of Acrobat do I need?

None. Adobe Acrobat is no longer required as of PDF Snake version 6.

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