pdfworkshop

PDF compress tool, using iLovePDF API

Prerequisites

The application is compatible with Windows and Linux based systems. Python version 3.6 or above is assumed to be installed, as well as pip package manager utility and setuptools module.

Installation

pip install pdfworkshop

or

python setup.py install

or

pip install -e ~/local_fork_repo_path/

How to run

pdfworkshop -h

Configuration

The public_key value must be defined before using the tool for the first time. The required public key can be obtained by creating a developer account on iLovePDF. Any value can be configured using:

pdfworkshop config <config_name> <new_config_value>

Commands

• list-config - list configuration values
• config <option> <value> - edit tool configuration values
• run - compress all PDF files stored in input_dir, storing the result in output_dir

How to use

By default, the PDF files to compress should be on the directory from where the tool will be called. After using the run command, an output directory will be created, where all compressed files will be stored.

Example run

To exercise some of the available commands, one can try to:

• List the current configuration

pdfworkshop list-config

• Define the API public_key value

pdfworkshop config public_key <new_public_key>

• Run PDF compress tool

pdfworkshop run

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.