HornPenguin Booklet

Version 0.0.2

HornPenguin Booklet is a simple software generating booklet and signature for bookbinding from your pdf files. You can print your own book signatures and simple pamplet with your home printer.

• Support diffence signature size from 4 to 32.
• Imposition layouts are supported for each type of signature.
• Change page size during generating signature.
• Left riffling direction is supported for old asian bookbinding.
• Printing markers; trim, CMYK, signature proof, ... .

See further details and usage examples in project documents.

Quick Usage

See detailed descriptions in Documentation

Execution

The executable files are in dist directory.

There are two options onefile execution file and the compressed onedir file. The project supports for Windows, Linux, and OSX. You must notice that the onefile files requires some time to execute at initial stage. To inform the executation, there is a splash window in the each onefile files, thanks to splash routine in pyinstaller.

pip install pyinstaller

and execute the build.py. The file would automatically generate executable file and the documentations.

• Windows

  booklet.exe # console program
  bbokletw.exe # GUI program
  

• Linux

  booklet # console program
  bbokletw # GUI program
  

• OSX

  No, but you can excute python source code.

or you can directly execute main.py or mainw.py with your python environment. Just check the prerequists in Dependencies section. It is recommended if there are some errors in the execution files or you are using OSX. (I don't have Mac yet.)

UI

Dependencies

• reportlab
• PyPDF2
• Pillow
• simpleaudio
• pdf2image
• tkmacosx : Mac only

Install them with next command

pip install PyPDF2 reportlab Pillow pdf2image simpleaudio

For simpleaudio, it requires compilers, build tools and prerequest library libasound2-dev to install the module. If you are using Ubuntu you can install build-essential from repository.

sudo apt install build-essential libasound2-dev

Contribution

See guides and rules in Developer guide document

Further routines

Further routines for next version

Simple

• Add more color markers - Done
• Precious setting of rectangle object -Done

Little troublesome

• Converting PDF with image before transformation.(some pdfs are broken in their fonts or positions of elements during transformation) -Done Additional libraries are too heavy...

Annoying

1. Dealing multiple PDFs at once.
2. PDF preview for original and signature(UI.... :<).

License

This program distributed under BSD 3-clause license See detail license text in LICENSE file in repository.