[ANN] pdfposter 0.7

I'm pleased to announce pdftools.pdfposter 0.7, a tool to scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages. :Homepage: https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/ :Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> :Licence: GNU Public Licence v3 (GPLv3) :Quick Installation: pip install -U pdftools.pdfposter :Tarballs: https://pypi.org/project/pdftools.pdfposter/#files What is pdfposter? -------------------- Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages. ``Pdfposter`` can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like ``poster`` does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. :-) Indeed ``pdfposter`` was inspired by ``poster``. For more information please refer to the manpage or visit the `project homepage <https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/>`_. What's new in version 0.7 --------------------------------------- * Incompatible change: `DIN lang` and `Envelope No. 10` are now defined as landscape formats. * New options ``-f``/``--first`` and ``-l``/``--last`` for specifying the first resp. last page to convert * Reduce the size of the output file a lot. Now the output file is nearly the same size as the input file. While this behaviour was intended from the beginning, it was not yet implemented for two reasons: The content was a) copied for each print-page and b) not compressed. * Make the content of each page appear only once in the output file. This vastly reduces the size of the output file. * Compress page content. Now the output file is nearly the same size as the input file in much more cases. I thought, the underlying library will do this automatically, but it does not. * Fix bug in PDF code used for clipping the page content. Many thanks to Johannes Brödel for reporting this bug. * Add support for Python 3. * Use `PyPFDF2` instead of the unmaintained `pyPDF`. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
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