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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script for converting a pdf to book format Post 302366088 by dokan on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 07:57:59 PM
Old 10-28-2009
Bug 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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pdfconcat

PDFCONCAT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PDFCONCAT(1)

NAME

       pdfconcat - program to concatenate several PDF files.

SYNOPSIS

       pdfconcat -o outfile.pdf input1.pdf [inputN.pdf ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pdfconcat command.

       pdfconcat  is  a small and fast command-line utility written in ANSI C that can concatenate (merge) several PDF files into a long PDF docu-
       ment. External libraries are not required, only ANSI C functions are used.  Several features of the output file are taken  from	the  first
       input  file  only. For example, outlines (also known as hierarchical bookmarks) in subsequent input files are ignored. pdfconcat compresses
       its input a little bit by removing whitespace and unused file parts.  This program has been tested on various huge PDFs downloaded from the
       Adobe  web  site,  plus	an  1200-pages	long mathematics manual typeset by LaTeX, emitted by pdflatex, dvipdfm and `gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite',
       totalling 5981 pages in a single PDF file.

OPTIONS

       -o output.pdf
	      Place output in file output.pdf

SEE ALSO

       imgmerge(1), xpaint(1).

AUTHOR

       pdfconcat was written by Peter Szabo <pts@fazekas.hu>.

       This manual page was written by Josue Abarca <jmaslibre@debian.org.gt>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).  Permission	is
       granted	to  copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation please see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for the full text of the licence.

								 January 22, 2010						      PDFCONCAT(1)
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