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Extremely crude script that takes a PDF, slices & dices, and produces a 2x2 grid of pages laid out for binding (foldable)
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#!/bin/bash | |
clear | |
echo "PDF file name:" | |
read FILE_NAME | |
echo "PDF page count:" | |
read PAGE_COUNT | |
echo "... looking at the following file:" | |
ls -la $FILE_NAME | |
echo | |
SIGS=$(($PAGE_COUNT / 16)) | |
REMAINDER=$(($PAGE_COUNT % 16)) | |
BLANKS=$((16-$REMAINDER)) | |
echo "Checking..." | |
if [ "$REMAINDER" -gt 0 ] | |
then | |
echo "You will have $BLANKS blank page(s) at the end" | |
SIGS=$(($SIGS + 1)) | |
fi | |
echo "There will be $SIGS signatures" | |
if [ -d 'output_small' ] | |
then | |
rm -rf output_small | |
echo "Dumping all old content from the directory 'output_small'" | |
fi | |
mkdir 'output_small' | |
TEMP_FILE_NAME="output_small/temp.pdf" | |
FLIPPED_FILE_NAME="output_small/temp_flipped.pdf" | |
cp $FILE_NAME $TEMP_FILE_NAME | |
pdf180 $FILE_NAME --outfile $FLIPPED_FILE_NAME | |
for sig in `seq 1 $SIGS`; | |
do | |
echo "Signature : $sig of $SIGS" | |
i=$(($(($sig - 1)) * 16)) | |
sig_file_name="output_small/temp_sig_$i.pdf" | |
temp_cmd="pdfjam --nup 2x2 $FLIPPED_FILE_NAME '$(($i+1)),$(($i+16))' $TEMP_FILE_NAME '$(($i+4)),$(($i+13))' $FLIPPED_FILE_NAME '$(($i+15)),$(($i+2))' $TEMP_FILE_NAME '$(($i+14)),$(($i+3))' $FLIPPED_FILE_NAME '$(($i+5)),$(($i+12))' $TEMP_FILE_NAME '$(($i+8)),$(($i+9))' $FLIPPED_FILE_NAME '$(($i+11)),$(($i+6))' $TEMP_FILE_NAME '$(($i+10)),$(($i+7))' --outfile $sig_file_name" | |
echo $temp_cmd | |
eval $temp_cmd | |
done | |
exit 0 | |
TEMP_CMD="ls" | |
echo | |
echo "what? '$TEMP_CMD'" | |
eval $TEMP_CMD | |
echo "done" |
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