dummypdf 2.1.1

Generate dummy pdf files with configurable paper size and number of pages.

Check out my other PDF tools: pdfautonup | pdfimpose.

Paper size and number of pages are configurable. Files can be used to test pdf manipulation tools.

Examples :

• One page A4 paper: example1.pdf:

  dummypdf A4

• Six pages, a third of an A4 paper: example2.pdf:

  dummypdf -n 6 -p 21cmx99mm

  or:

  dummypdf 21cmx99mm:6

• A pdf with different page formats: different.pdf:

  dummypdf A4 A5:landscapewest

But why?

To develop or test PDF manipulating tools, I sometimes need to have files with a very specific size or number of pages. I can generate those files with this tool.

What’s new?

See changelog.

Download and install

See the end of list for a (quick and dirty) Debian package.

• From sources:

  • Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dummypdf

  • Install (in a virtualenv, if you do not want to mess with your distribution installation system):

    python3 setup.py install

• From pip:

  pip install dummypdf

• Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package

  This requires stdeb to be installed:

  python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
  sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/dummypdf-<VERSION>_all.deb

Documentation

• The compiled documentation is available on readthedocs

• To compile it from source, download and run:

  cd doc && make html