PyPdfConv

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What is it ?

PyPdfConv is a program that enables to convert easily PDF documents on GNU/Linux (and evry systems with Python interpretor). It is a free software released under GPL whith allow:

• to transform linear documents to booklets;
• to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for tracts for example);
• to transform booklets to linear documents.

PyPdfConv permettait de fusionner plusieurs documents PDF en un seul. Cette fonctionnalité a été abandonnée, car il existe maintenant pdfshuffler qui fait ça très bien. Un paquet debian est disponible.

PyPdfConv is under devlopment, which means that for the moment, some things works, some others does not... Thanks to report bugs if you find some!

Voici une copie d'écran de la version de juillet 2008 :

Capture d'écran de l'onglet Convertions de PyPdfConv

How it works

More technically, PyPdfConv is made of an graphic interface writen in PyGTK which controls a modified version of pyPdf, which is a toolbox for PDF implemented in Python. It is the way employed now;

Other versions

PyPdfConv is modular, and can support external converters provided by PdfJam and PsUtils utilities.

The previous version of PyPdfConv, with was a "simple" graphic interface written in PyGTK for PdfJam and PsUtils, which is avalible here [https://kjo.herbesfolles.org/pypdfconv/old]

Developpement state (june 2009)

Among known problems:

• the converter's progress bar doesn't work properly;
  Furethermore, some fontionality are still to be implemented.

Quick installation

• Make sure that a python interpretor and PyGTK are still installed on the system;
• Download pypdfconv;
• Extract the archive: $ tar -xvf pypdfconv-0.4beta4.tar.bz2
• Execute $ ./configure
• Execute $ make
• Execute $ sudo make install

Detailled installation instructions

Dependancies

PyPdfConv needs:

• A python interpretor, with should already be installed under dabien;
• PyGTK, with is provide with the debian python-gtk2 package.

The utility itself

• Download pypdfconv;
• Extract the archive: $ tar -xvf pypdfconv-0.4beta4.tar.bz2
• Execute $ ./configure
• Execute $ make
• Execute $ sudo make install

Usage

To launch PyPdfConv, execute the command: $ pypdfconv