pdfautonup

pdfautonup 🍳 n-up the pages of pdf files, guessing layout

Check out my other PDF tools: pdfimpose <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfimpose>__ | dummypdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/dummypdf>. This tool can be used online at: https://pdfimpose.it <https://pdfimpose.it?layout=pdfautonup>

Fit as much pages as possible, from some PDF files to a 'n-up' PDF file of a given page size, guessing the layout.

Examples

With the default paper size being A4, pdfautonup on:

• trigo.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/trigo.pdf?inline=false>_ gives trigo-nup.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/trigo-nup.pdf?inline=false>_
• pcb.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/pcb.pdf?inline=false>_ gives pcb-nup.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/pcb-nup.pdf?inline=false>_
• three-pages.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/three-pages.pdf?inline=false>_ gives three-pages-nup.pdf <https://framagit.org/spalax/pdfautonup/-/raw/main/examples/three-pages-nup.pdf?inline=false>_

See the documentation for the full command lines used to generate those examples.

What's new?

See changelog <https://git.framasoft.org/spalax/pdfautonup/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/pdfautonup

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

    python3 setup.py install
    

• From pip::

  pip install pdfautonup

  Note: If PyMuPDF <https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF>_ can be installed, you can use::

  pip install pdfautonup[pymupdf]

  This will change the python library used to read and write PDF files (PyMuPDF <https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF>_ instead of PyPDF <https://pypi.org/project/pypdf/>_), to make pdfautonup faster.

• Quick and dirty Debian (and Ubuntu?) package

  This requires stdeb <https://github.com/astraw/stdeb>_ (and setuptools-scm <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools-scm/>_) to be installed::

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

Documentation

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

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

  cd doc && make html