On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:52:19 -0400 Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> dijo:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:03, Frank Cox <melville.theatre at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Someone just drew this to my attention: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler/ > > > > I haven't tried it myself yet. ?I actually use pdftk for that sort of thing, > > but the screenshot makes it look very interesting. > > > > If you're using Fedora 10, it's available in the "updates" repository; just > > "yum > > install pdfshuffler" to get it. > > FYI: Given that the screen shots are all of Full Circle magazine -- a > magazine focusing on Ubuntu -- one assumes it's an easy get for the > Ubuntu crowd as well. And as it turns out, it's distributed on > SourceForge as a .deb. :-) I downloaded the tarball and followed the instructions in the enclosed README file to install it on my Ubuntu Intrepid x86_64 computer. That is, In order to install run: sudo python setup.py install The installation seemed to go OK, but it did not install a launch menu item. It did create an executable file called fileshuffler, so I tried launching it from the command line. But that didn't work: jjj at Devil7:~/Software/pdfshuffler-0.3.1$ pdfshuffler Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pdfshuffler", line 65, in <module> from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader ImportError: No module named pyPdf So then I went back to Sourceforge and grabbed the .deb file. That installed fine with gDebi. (I was worried because my Ubuntu is 64-bit.) The installation created a menu item to launch it, and it launched fine. The display is a little austere and there is no Help file, but I guessed that I was supposed to "Import" a PDF file to work on it. Sure enough, it opened a PDF file chosen at random. And I was able to selected individual pages and drag them around. This could be a really handy tool. Thanks for telling me about it.
