diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/pdf.scm | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/pdf.scm b/gnu/packages/pdf.scm index 6c3d0fe89d..2f85b687d0 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/pdf.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/pdf.scm @@ -855,3 +855,35 @@ manage or manipulate PDFs.") Note: This module isn't maintained anymore. For new projects please use python-pypdf2 instead.") (license license:bsd-3))) + +(define-public pdfposter + (package + (name "pdfposter") + (version "0.6.0") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (pypi-uri "pdftools.pdfposter" version ".tar.bz2")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1i9jqawf279va089ykicglcq4zlsnwgcnsdzaa8vnm836lqhywma")))) + (build-system python-build-system) + (arguments + `(#:tests? #f ; no test suite, only for visual control + #:python ,python-2)) + (inputs + ;; pdfposter 0.6.0 still uses the old pyPdf + `(("python2-pypdf" ,python2-pypdf))) + (native-inputs + `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools))) + (home-page "https://pythonhosted.org/pdftools.pdfposter/") + (synopsis "Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages") + (description "@command{pdfposter} can be used to create a large poster by +building it from multple 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 @command{poster} does for Postscript files, but working with +PDF. Since sometimes @command{poster} does not like your files converted from +PDF. Indeed @command{pdfposter} was inspired by @command{poster}.") + (license license:gpl3+))) |