pdfchain 0.5.0.0.alpha.5

Description:

pdfchain 0.5.0.0.alpha.5

PDF Chain
A graphical user interface for the PDF Toolkit (PDFtk).
The GUI is intended to offer the functions of the command line program pdftk to all users in a easy way.

PDF Chain generates a command for the PDF Toolkit from the GUI settings and executes it on the system. Therefore the PDF Toolkit must be already installed on the system.
This version is a is a completely new implementation of PDF Chain in Python with a more modern interface design.
PDF Chain comes without any warranty!
Requires

Python3

Python-GObject



External Dependency

PDF Toolkit

PDF Toolkit - Manual



Alternatively

PDFtk Java

Installation
Install/Update Required Tools
Tools for installing

pip: The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages

$ pacman -S python-pip
$ apt install python3-pip

Tools for packaging

setuptools: Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
wheel: A built-package format for Python

$ pacman -S python-setuptools python-wheel
$ apt install python3-setuptools python3-wheel
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade setuptools wheel

Installing From PyPI.org Repository
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade pdfchain
$ pip3 uninstall pdfchain

Packaging and Installing From Git Repository
$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/pdfchain/neo pdfchain-neo

$ make dist
$ make install
$ make uninstall
$ make clean

Target directories

Dist directory: ~/.local/lib/python3.x/site-packages/pdfchain/
Data directory: ~/.local/share/
Exec directory: ~/.local/bin/

There is also a Arch Linux build script in the scripts/AUR directory.
Usage
Starting the Program
$ pdfchain

Command line options are not working yet!
User Documentation
There is a User Documentation for the previous version.