pdfchain 0.5.0.0.alpha.4

A graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit

PDF Chain

A graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk). The GUI is intended to offer the functions of the command line program pdftk to all users in a easy way.

PDF Chain generates a command for the PDF Toolkit from the GUI settings and executes it on the system. Therefore the PDF Toolkit must be already installed on the system.

This version is a is a completely new implementation of PDF Chain in Python with a more modern interface design.

PDF Chain comes without any warranty!

Requires

• Python3
  • Python-GObject

External Dependency

• PDF Toolkit
  • PDF Toolkit - Manual

Installation

Install/Update Required Tools

• Tools for packaging
  • setuptools
  • wheel

$ # Using PIP ...
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade setuptools wheel
$
$ # ... or using the package manager (e.g. `pacman`)
$ sudo pacman -S python-setuptools python-wheel

Installing From PyPi.org Repository

Install/Update Required Tools

$ # using the package manager (e.g. `pacman`)
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip

PDF Chain User Installation

$ pip3 install pdfchain
$ pip3 uninstall pdfchain

Packaging and Installing from Git Repository

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pdfchain/neo pdfchain-neo

PDF Chain User Installation

$ make dist
$ make install
$ make uninstall
$ make clean

• Dist directory: ~/.local/lib/python3.x/site-packages/pdfchain/
• Data directory: ~/.local/share/
• Exec directory: ~/.local/bin/

PDF Chain System Installation

$ make dist
$ sudo make install
$ sudo make uninstall
$ make clean

• Dist directory: /usr/lib/python3.x/site-packages/pdfchain/
• Data directory: /usr/share/
• Exec directory: /usr/bin/

Usage

Starting the Program

$ pdfchain

Command line options are not working yet!

User Documentation

• User Documentation for the previous version.