jackyhieu1211 / pdfcook

Prepress preparing tool and PDF editor

pdfcook

Preprinting preparation tool for PDF ebooks.

Build and Install

Enter directory src
cd src
run

make -j4  
sudo make install  

Install manpage
sudo make installman

Windows Build
On windows create a folder build/ beside src/ directory.
And edit Makefile and remove lines with
@mkdir -p $(@D)
Then to build run...
make -j4

Features

• PDF v1.7 support
• Decrypt encrypted PDFs
• Join or Split PDFs
• Scale to any paper size, with specified margin
• Write Page numbers
• Write text
• Transform pages (rotate, flip, move)
• Booklet format arrange
• 2 or 4 pages per page (2-up, 4-up)
• More readable output syntax for easy debugging

Usage

See manual page (PDF or man page) for detailed usage

Scale to print in A4 size paper
pdfcook 'scaleto(a4)' input.pdf output.pdf

Add binding margin after scaling (? for odd pages, + for even pages)
pdfcook 'scaleto(a4) move(20){?} move(-20){+}' input.pdf output.pdf

Add page numbers
pdfcook 'number' input.pdf output.pdf

Booklet format
pdfcook 'book nup(2, paper=a4)' input.pdf output.pdf