pdfshuffler - edit pdfs

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pdfshuffler - edit pdfs

#1 Post by disciple »

:) Very nice!

I'm pretty sure this is way faster than pdfedit (although I've only got pdfedit in Cygwin, not puppy) and it's certainly a much better interface if you're doing document assembly type stuff.

Unfortunately this is all python based :(
But it's worth it!

Install:

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/python-2.5.2.pet (15.2MB)
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/p ... 2.14.1.pet
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/p ... 1.4.12.pet
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/pygtk-2.12.pet
(thanks Big Bass)
Updated poppler
(thanks MU)
updated glib
(thanks Ttuuxxx)
Libxcb or whatever this was for - extract to /usr/bin. Someone might like to pet just what we need.
(thanks craftybytes)
http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/fedora ... 1.i586.rpm - extract poppler.so to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
(Thanks Fedora)
http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/ubuntu/pool/univ ... -2_all.deb - run `ln /usr/share/python-support/python-pypdf/pyPdf /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyPdf`
(thanks Ubuntu)
You'll probably need http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=8356 for at least one of those last two.

And of course the latest pdfshuffler from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/files/

Perhaps someone would like to make an .sfs of all this :)

BTW please send me a personal message if I've missed a dependency.
N.B. if you're running Puppy with Colinux (AFAIK I'm the only one doing this currently) it will probably display pages all black... not sure why.

---EDIT---
:oops: Darn :oops:
Sorry everyone. I accidentally linked to the wrong poppler upgrade. Fixed now.
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#2 Post by disciple »

I've made an 11MB .sfs to make it easier to install pdfshuffler and its dependencies - python, pygtk etc. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45826
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#3 Post by Vyse »

Great work disciple!!

I was looking for some kind of alternative for pdfedit..and this is just perfect. It is way faster than pdfedit on my 4.2.1 frugal.

Thanks again and best regards.

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Bookmarked thanks
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#5 Post by disciple »

:oops: Darn :oops:
Sorry everyone. I accidentally linked to the wrong poppler upgrade. The right one was a couple of posts further down in the same thread.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=17887
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New version of Pdfshuffler (pdf editor) is out.

#6 Post by disciple »

A new version of Pdfshuffler (pdf editor) is out.
Get it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/
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#7 Post by disciple »

There's a fork of Pdfshuffler some of you might be interested in; unfortunately it requires pygconf.
http://code.google.com/p/pdfsnip/
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#8 Post by disciple »

Aha!
I found an old debian package of pygconf that seems to work even with my gconf-dbus package.
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... 3_i386.deb
Just extract the gconf.so to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gconf.so

To install Pdfsnip extract it and run `python setup.py clean install`. It should now work.
The main advantage of Pdfsnip is that it has a zoom feature... but this is slow and seems unreliable :(
It might be better to add a feature to Pdfshuffler to enlarge just a single page (in a separate window or pane).
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