User:Simon/Trim4/PDF imposition

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Hackpact 1: PDF imposition

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

Impose 01.jpg

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
   $ pdftk source.pdf burst output source-%d.pdf
   #impose the resulting burst single page PDFs
   #impose 2up on a page using imagemagick montage command
   #assemble imposed PDFs into a single file