pdfbook 0.1.0

Rearrange pages in PDFs for printing books

Author:

Hartmut Goebel <[e-mail]>

Version:

Version 0.1

Copyright:

2010-2023 by Hartmut Goebel

Licence:

GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)

Homepage:

http://pdfbook.readthedocs.io/

pdfbook rearranges pages from a PDF document into “signatures” for printing books or booklets, creating a new PDF file.

This is much like psbook does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Indeed pdfbook was inspired by psbook.

For more information please refer to the manpage or visit the project homepage.

Requirements when Installating from Source

If you want to install pdfbook from source, make sure you have the following software installed:

• Python 3 (tested with 3.8),

• pip for installation, and

• PyPDF2.

Hints for installing on Windows:

Following the links above you will find .msi and .exe-installers. Simply install them and continue with installing pdfbook.

Hints for installing on GNU/Linux:

Most current GNU/Linux distributions provide packages for the requirements. Look for packages names like python-pypdf2. Simply install them and continue with installing pdfbook.

Hint for installing on other platforms:

Many vendors provide Python. Please check your vendors software repository. Otherwise please download Python 3.8 (or any higher version from the 3.x series) from http://www.python.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions there.

If the commands below fail due to module pip not found, please install it using:

python -m ensurepip

Installing pdfbook

If your system has network access installing pdfbook is a breeze:

pip install pdfbook

If you downloaded and unpacked pdfbook just run:

python -m pip install .

Without network access download pdfbook from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfbook and run:

pip install pdfbook-*.tar.gz

For more details like custom installation locations please refer to the official end user guide for installing Python packages.