pdfimpose 2.6.0

Perform imposition of a PDF file.

Check out my other PDF tools: pdfautonup | dummypdf. This tool can be used online at: https://pdfimpose.it.

Imposition consists in the arrangement of the printed product’s pages on the printer’s sheet, in order to obtain faster printing, simplify binding and reduce paper waste (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition).

This software can perform imposition on PDF files of arbitrary size. It handles several imposition schemas: hardcover binding, saddle stitch, one page zine, etc. See documentation for more details.

Examples

• 2024 calendar (source, see LaTeX source file in sources repository).

• Flash cards (source);

• Copy, cut, fold (source);

• Cut, stack, fold (source);

• One-page-zine (source);

• Hardcover binding (source);

• Saddle stitch (source);

• Wire binding (source).

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/pdfimpose

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

    python setup.py install

• From pip:

  pip install pdfimpose

• Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package

  This requires stdeb to be installed:

  python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
  sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/python<PYVERSION>-pdfimpose_<VERSION>_all.deb

Documentation

• The compiled documentation is available on readthedocs

• To compile it from source, download and run:

  cd doc && make html