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Re: [Patch v2 3/3] gnu: Add pdfposter.
From: |
Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
Re: [Patch v2 3/3] gnu: Add pdfposter. |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:51:28 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:39:13PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> * gnu/packages/pdf.scm(pdfposter): New variable.
> ---
> gnu/packages/pdf.scm | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/pdf.scm b/gnu/packages/pdf.scm
> index e0279c6..06cfab9 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/pdf.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/pdf.scm
> @@ -851,3 +851,35 @@ is therefore a useful tool for websites that manage or
> manipulate PDFs.")
> Note: This module isn't maintained anymore. For new projects please use
> python-pypdf2 instead.")
> (license license:bsd-3)))
> +
> +(define-public pdfposter
> + (package
> + (name "pdfposter")
> + (version "0.6.0")
> + (source (origin
> + (method url-fetch)
> + (uri (pypi-uri "pdftools.pdfposter" version ".tar.bz2"))
> + (sha256
> + (base32
> + "1i9jqawf279va089ykicglcq4zlsnwgcnsdzaa8vnm836lqhywma"))))
> + (build-system python-build-system)
> + (arguments
> + `(#:tests? #f ; no test suite, only for visula control
^^^^^^^
typo
> + #:python ,python-2))
> + (inputs
> + ;; pdfposter 0.6.0 still uses the old pyPdf
> + `(("python2-pypdf" ,python2-pypdf)))
> + (native-inputs
> + `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)))
> + (home-page "https://pythonhosted.org/pdftools.pdfposter/")
> + (synopsis "Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages")
> + (description "@command{pdfposter} can be used to create a large poster by
> +building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects
> +as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again
> +a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster.
> The
> +input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.
> +
> +This is much like @command{poster} does for Postscript files, but working
> with
> +PDF. Since sometimes @command{poster} does not like your files converted
> from
> +PDF. :-) Indeed @command{pdfposter} was inspired by @command{poster}.")
^^^^
I would leave this out
> + (license license:gpl3+)))
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
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