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10-28-2009

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Script for converting a pdf to book format

Hello, excuse my English... I'm trying to do a nautilus-script to transform a normal A4 pdf to another pdf with book format, ready to be printed (double sided). I mean, the script put pages in order and also put 2 pages per horizontal A4 page (p.e.: a pdf with 8 pages would look like: 8-1, 2-7, 6-3, 4-5; and a pdf with 7 pages would be: blankPage-1, 2-7, 6-3, 4-5).

I've tried a lot of commands with no result; I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I suppose it will be all of it...

Here it is the code:

Code:

#!/bin/bash


a="pdftk $1 dump_data output | grep -i Num | cut -d \  -f2"
x=a%2
y=((a+1)/2)+1
i=2
j=$a

if [ "$x" = "0" ]; then
    pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages $j,1 --outfile partwkj1.pdf
    j=j-1
else
    pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages ,1 --outfile partwkj1.pdf
fi

while [ $i -lt $y ]; do
    pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages $i,$j --outfile partwkj$i.pdf
    i=i+1
    j=j-1
    if [ $i -lt $y ]; then
        pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages $j,$i --outfile partwkj$i.pdf
    fi
    i=i+1
    j=j-1
done
pdftk partwkj*.pdf cat output libro.pdf
rm partwkj*.pdf

Thanks a lot,
Antonio

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NAME

       pdfclean - pretty print, decompress and garbage collect PDF files

SYNOPSIS

       pdfclean [options] input.pdf [output.pdf] [pages]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfclean  pretty prints and rewrites the contents of a PDF file.  If no output file is specified, the new file will be written to "out.pdf"
       in the current directory.

OPTIONS

       -p password
	      Use the specified password if the file is encrypted.

       -g     Garbage collect objects that have no references from other objects.  Give the option twice to renumber all objects and  compact  the
	      cross reference table.  Give it three times to merge and reuse duplicate objects.

       -d     Decompress streams. This will make the output file larger, but provides easy access for reading and editing the contents with a text
	      editor.

       pages  Comma separated list of ranges to clean.

SEE ALSO

       mupdf(1), pdfdraw(1).  pdfshow(1).

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