User:Simon/Trim4/PDF imposition

Hackpact 1: PDF imposition

Premise: I will write my own script(s) to impose pages from a source PDF:

The aim is to write a Python script to automate the process by iterating recursively over pages in a PDF. These will be called in Python as subprocesses using the subprocess module.

24.09.19

First, I'm working out which commands to use from the command line. The process should be as follows:

   #burst the source PDF, keep the name of the source plus page number (-%d)
   $ pdftk source.pdf burst output source-%d.pdf

   #resize the resulting burst single page PDF
   $ magick mogrify -resize 50% source*.pdf
   #or to resize to specific pixel dimensions such as 256x256
   $ magick mogrify -resize 256x256 source*.pdf

   #impose 2up on a page using imagemagick montage command

   #assemble imposed PDFs into a single file