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!

Troubleshooting

For version 'pdfchain-0.5.0.0.alpha.5' it is necessary to create
the configuration file ~/.config/pdfchain.ini manually.

$ echo -e "[Path]\npdftk = pdftk" > ~/.config/pdfchain.ini

User Documentation

There is a User Documentation for the previous version.