pdf2up 0.0.7

A small utility to generate fairly high resolution preview images of PDFs suitable for viewing or sharing to social media

pdf2up

A small utility to generate preview images of research papers (e.g. arXiv) suitable for social media (e.g. Twitter)

Installation

To install as a command line tool pdf2up run:

pip install pdf2up

Usage

Run pdf2up input.pdf, optionally with the following flags:

• -b/--box to specify a crop box for each pre-cropped 2-up page image

  • 4 values: -b 1 2 3 4 gets read as left, top, right, bottom
  • 2 values: -b 1 2 gets repeated as -b 1 2 1 2
  • 1 value: -b 1 = -b 1 1 1 1

• --all to override the default of 8 pages (4 images, each 2-up)