https://github.com/ksharindam/pdfcook

Prepress preparing tool and PDF editor
https://github.com/ksharindam/pdfcook

pdf pdf-document-processor pdf-editor prepress

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Prepress preparing tool and PDF editor

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ksharindam/pdfcook
• Owner: ksharindam
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2021-04-11T13:36:10.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-01T12:40:03.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T15:11:18.405Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: pdf, pdf-document-processor, pdf-editor, prepress
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 124 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# pdfcook

Preprinting preparation tool for PDF ebooks.  

### Build and Install

Enter directory src  

`cd src`  

run  

```

make -j4  

sudo make install  

```  

Install manpage  

`sudo make installman`  

**Windows Build**  

On windows create a folder build/ beside src/ directory.  

And edit Makefile and remove lines with  

`	@mkdir -p $(@D)`  

Then to build run...  

 `make -j4`  

### Features

* PDF v1.7 support  

* Decrypt encrypted PDFs  

* Join or Split PDFs  

* Scale to any paper size, with specified margin  

* Write Page numbers  

* Write text  

* Transform pages (rotate, flip, move)  

* Booklet format arrange  

* 2 or 4 pages per page (2-up, 4-up)  

* More readable output syntax for easy debugging  

### Usage

See manual page (PDF or man page) for detailed usage  

Scale to print in A4 size paper  

`pdfcook 'scaleto(a4)' input.pdf output.pdf`  

Add binding margin after scaling (? for odd pages, + for even pages)  

`pdfcook 'scaleto(a4) move(20){?} move(-20){+}' input.pdf output.pdf`  

Add page numbers  

`pdfcook 'number' input.pdf output.pdf`  

Booklet format  

`pdfcook 'book nup(2, paper=a4)' input.pdf output.pdf`