hehe-maker 1.1.3a0

Ett enkelt kommandoverktyg för att sätta ihop PDF:er till HeHE

HeHE-maker

For comprehensive guide in Swedish, as created for Redaktionen at E-sektionen, see README.swe.md

HeHE-maker is a simple command line-tool to create a paper to be published in printed and/or web form. Simply create the pages you want, order them in an otherwise empty directory/folder (simply naming them 01.pdf, 02.pdf, 03.pdf etc. is enough) and let the script create printable versions, as well as web versions, for you! If more than one page happens to be in the same PDF-file, for example if an article has two pages in the same file, HeHE-maker will take care of this for you.

Running using pipx

This program is part if the Python Index (PyPi) and can easily be installed and run using pip and pipx. Start by installing python from here, and run python -v in your console and make sure everything looks reasonable. Then run the following commands:

• pip install pipx
• pipx install hehe-maker

Done! You can now use HeHE-maker by typing hehe-maker followed by arguments (according to "Running the program" below)!

Requirements

Requires Python 3.x and the pdfrw package to run. Simply install Python from here, run python -v to make sure everything was installed properly. If you don't let the installer create a PATH-variable, add python before anything else in your commands.

To install pdfrw, run pip install pdfrw.

Running the program

After installing the requirements above, and cloning this repo, open the terminal and navigate to the folder with hehe-maker.py. Simply use hehemaker.py "<path to input>" "<path to output>" and the script will create print.pdf and web.pdf at the specified path.

Note: You might have the write python before hehemaker.py on some systems.

Further functions and flags

HeHE-maker can do much more to facilitate the publishing of a paper by using flags to set functions. These are written before the input and output paths. They are as follows:

• This list not helpful enough? Use -h or --help!
• To suppress the requirement for the number of pages to fit nicely on the print format, use -f or --force. (This is only necessary when running in normal mode, i.e. not using other flags)
• To convert from a printed version to a web version, use -s or --split.
• To remove one or more pages use -rm or --remove followed by the page number(s) to be removed. Example: To remove the first and last page of a 12 page file, use hehemaker.py -rm 1 12 "<path to input>" "<path to output>"
• To insert pages into an existing file, use -ins or --insert followed by the path to the pages to be inserted, and -i (or --index) followed by where the pages should be inserted. Example: An article saved in "C:\Users\Hacke\..\article" is to be inserted at page 3. Use hehemaker.py -ins "C:\\Users\\Hacke\\..\\article" -i 3 "<path to input>" "<path to output>"

Further Examples

Little Timmy has an old printed version of a paper as a PDF file, old.pdf, but he wants to censor the article on pages 4-5 and replace it with a two-page ad. He saves old.pdf in a new empty folder/directory at the path C:\Users\Timmy\old\. He has his ad in an otherwise empty folder at path C:\Users\Timmy\ad\.

He starts by creating a directory C:\Users\Timmy\new\ and creates a web version by running hehemaker.py -s "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\old" "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\new".

He deletes old.pdf and replaces it with web.pdfcreated in the \new\-directory and then runs hehemaker.py -rm 4 5 "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\old" "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\new".

He deletes web.pdf and replaces it with removed.pdfcreated in the \new\-directory. He then inserts his ad by running hehemaker.py -ins "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\ad" -i 4 "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\old" "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\new".

He now wants the whole paper in a printable format on his desktop, so he finally runs hehemaker.py "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\new" "C:\\Users\\Timmy\\Desktop".

Why

Doing all this with large documents (12+ pages) becomes very tiresome.