| Summary: | app-text/pdfcrop ebuild request | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chris Chan <cryptopsy> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | chris, gentoo, sydro |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Chris Chan
2010-03-04 01:50:27 UTC
There's only binary :( Its a python script - you don't compile it. (In reply to comment #1) > There's only binary :( > I'd also like to add that's there another program by the same name that belongs to texlive-latex package, which has additional features. (In reply to comment #0) > "pdfcrop" is a tool for cropping and setting margins in pdf files. It does this > using pdf2ps, ps2pdf, poster and pdftk (optional). This small python program is > very useful as it compensates for the inconsistencies in CUPS (After exaustive > research, I was not able to adjust margins with CUPS). Could someone write an > ebuild for this please? Source: http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ > > Reproducible: Always > it world be nice if someone can put this ebuild in the portage. the request is since a while :) Ghostscript will not suffice either, as it requires the user to do calculations before cropping, otherwise the cropping is not reliable due to numerous reasons that I cannot cite here; mostly due to document specific attributes. |