Source: https://github.com/jeromerobert/pdfarranger
pdfarranger is a small but helpful tool that lets you split, merge and rotate pdf documents in an easy way. It has a clean an minimal ui so that almost everyone is able to use that tool.
There is no comparable tool in the repo that lets you do that that easily. The more advanced pdf editors are too complicated and not good in that particular task, as there is not such an easy gui
| D4644 Inclusion of pdfarranger in the repository | |||
| R4999 pdfarranger | |||
| D9034 | R4999:0b7d87faf285 Initial inclusion of pdfarranger | ||
The biggest plus is the intuitive interface. I can import two pdf files and arrange them in any way i want, just by drag and drop the pages i want to rearange. In the same interface i can click on a single page to rotate it.
Pdfsam is way more complicated. i have a tab for each task (rotate, merge etc). and it is no simple graphical ui. I can just merge document A and document B to one simple document AB. At least i havent found a way to simply do a "A1A2B4A3B1A1B2B3" order, instead of "A1A2A3A4B1B2B3B4" with document A and B which both have 4 pages. And after the merge i can just say rotate every page, every even page or every uneven page.
Like i said, pdfarranger is way faster and much more simple for such a task. Even my father could use it to do his work, while every other programm is way more complicated or does not offer the same functionality. I mean i tried everything in the repos + snap and flatpack packages. None of them could fit the need. On arch linux pdfarranger was my favorite pdf tool. Simple and efficient
This has not been accepted. It will need to wait until I am convinced that upstream is taking this one and won't abandon it anytime soon. One release is not enough.
For what it's worth, there is version 1.1 now:
Changes:
This package will require pyPDF2 to be packaged for Solus. Unfortunately, development of pyPDF2 has stalled. See below.
https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2/wiki/State-of-PyPDF2-and-Future-Plans
I would like to suggest that this task be re-opened/re-considered
pypdf2 has been dropped in favor of python-pikepdf, see recent release notes: https://github.com/jeromerobert/pdfarranger/releases/tag/1.4.0
mutool (T2156) does page extraction, merging and splitting, and is recently accepted in the repo. I don't have a solution for rotation yet.
I tried mupdf/mutool and pdfarranger on xubuntu and just want to humbly state my interest in pdfarranger as well. It's a very nice tool that does its job very efficiently.
It seems like version 1.4.0 dropped pyPDF2 too. I'm not a developer and I can't say what it was replaced with though. If there is anything I can do to help with this, I will gladly do so!
https://github.com/jeromerobert/pdfarranger/releases/tag/1.4.0
This is what it needs.
builddeps :
- python-distutils-extra
rundeps :
- poppler
- python-pikepdf
- python3-cairo
- python3-gobjectand for python-pikepdf
builddeps :
- pkgconfig(libqpdf)
- pkgconfig(python3)
- pybind11
- python-setuptools
- python-setuptools-scm-git-archive
rundeps :
- python-lxmlI can maintain this if it is accepted for inclusion.
Can we re consider to accept this package for inclusion.
I have been using this for three months now and it is working fine.
This project is in active development and currently there are 18 releases so far.
The dependency problem with pyPDF2 is solved by replacing it with python-pikepdf.
@algent Sure. Next time something like this goes more than a week without a response from me, give a poke on IRC. Sometimes I miss emails.