ANN: pdfposter 0.8.1 - scale and tile PDF pages to print on multiple sheets
jkn
jkn_gg at nicorp.f9.co.uk
Fri Nov 4 18:02:16 EDT 2022
On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 6:21:55 PM UTC, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce pdftools.pdfposter 0.8.1, a tool to scale and
> tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages.
>
> :Homepage: https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/
> :Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.go... at crazy-compilers.com>
> :License: GNU Public License v3 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later)
>
> :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 0.8.1
> -----------------------------------------
>
> * This is a bug-fix release for release 0.8.
>
> What's new in version 0.8
> -----------------------------------------
>
> * Be less strict when reading PDF files.
>
> * Enhance some help messages.
>
> * Drop support for Python 2 and Python <= 3.5. Minimum supported
> versions are
> now 3.6 to 3.10.
>
> * Internal changes:
>
> - Update required version of `PyPDF` to 2.1.1.
> - Enhance code quality.
>
> --
> Regards
> Hartmut Goebel
>
> | Hartmut Goebel | h.go... at crazy-compilers.com |
> | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
Thanks for this - yes, I remember poster for n-up Postscript files...
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