Support for A5 paper

See Changelog

v0.1.4

Added dynamic scaling to input PDFs

Another bugfix

The two lower A6 pages on every A4 page outputted ended up being switched. This is now fixed.

Bugfix.

The package structure with all its init.py files made it so that the thing didn't work.

All fixed now.

Final 0.1 release

Fixed a small issue with the usage-message when script is installed.

pdfbooktool

pdfbooktool

A python 3 tool for use in creating your own books.

There is currently only support for handling books in A6 format, printing on
A4 paper.

This package installs a script called 'booktool' and this is what you would
actually use for preparing your PDFs.

Usage

Navigate to the directory of your PDF, then do:

$ booktool A6-file.pdf

This will output a couple of intermediary files (which will be removed once the
script is finished running) into the working directory, and eventually a file
called 'out.pdf'. This new file is a reordered PDF in A4 dimensions, ready for
double-sided printing. Once printed, you can cut the sheets in half and bind
them together.

The easiest way is to fold the cut sheets and using the 'perfect binding'
technique. There exist several videos on youtube that explains how to do this.

A good open-source tool for creating suitable PDFs is 'scribus'.

Requirements

This package requires 'PyPDF2' to work, the install process should install this
automatically if needed.

The script currently only works with PDF-files that have A6 dimensions, trying
to run it with anything else will result in an error.

Running under windows

Running this script under Windows has not been tested, but neither PyPDF2 nor
pdfbooktool uses any features that are platform specific.