dummypdf

dummypdf 🥼 Generate dummy pdf files

Check out my other PDF tools: pdfautonup <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup>__ | pdfimpose <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfimpose>__.

Paper size and number of pages are configurable. Files can be used to test pdf manipulation tools.

Examples :

• One page A4 paper: example1.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/dummypdf/-/raw/main/doc/examples/example1.pdf?inline=false>__:

  dummypdf A4
  

• Six pages, a third of an A4 paper: example2.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/dummypdf/-/raw/main/doc/examples/example2.pdf?inline=false>__:

  dummypdf -n 6 -p 21cmx99mm
  

  or:

  dummypdf 21cmx99mm:6
  

• A pdf with different page formats: different.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/dummypdf/-/raw/main/doc/examples/different.pdf?inline=false>__:

  dummypdf A4 A5:landscapewest
  

But why?

To develop or test PDF manipulating tools, I sometimes need to have files with a very specific size or number of pages. I can generate those files with this tool.

What's new?

See changelog <https://framagit.org/spalax/dummypdf/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md>_.

Download and install

See the end of list for a (quick and dirty) Debian package.

• From sources:

  • Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dummypdf

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

    python3 setup.py install
    

• From pip::

  pip install dummypdf

• Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package

  This requires stdeb <https://github.com/astraw/stdeb>_ to be installed::

  python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
  sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/dummypdf-<VERSION>_all.deb
  

Documentation

• The compiled documentation is available on readthedocs <http://dummypdf.readthedocs.io>_

• To compile it from source, download and run::

  cd doc && make html