Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pdfserenitynow
Version: 0.2
Summary: Create TIFs and JPGs from crappy PDFs
Home-page: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfserenitynow/
Author: Ben Rousch
Author-email: brousch@gmail.com
License: MIT
Description: PDF Serenity Now
        ==========================
        
        PDF Serenity Now was born from my increasing contact with annoying PDFs. The
        biggest culprit is multi-layered PDFs which take forever to print, if you can
        get them to print at all. I created the original script to convert these PDFs
        to a more printer-friendly format (for the KIP series of plotters), namely
        flattened TIF Group 4. I can also use a JPG version of PDFs for easy viewing on
        our web-based content management system.
        
        At this time, it converts a folder of PDFs to a folder of TIFs. It handles
        large, crappy, multi-layer PDFs if you have enough RAM. ImageMagic does all of
        the hard work.
        
        In the future it will be smarter about converting and offer more target
        formats. The ultimate goal is a service where users can upload/submit a crappy
        PDF and have nice sets of TIFs and JPGs returned to them or put into their
        destination of choice. It will have a web control panel where you can monitor
        and manipulate conversions in progress or in a queue.
        
        Credits
        -------
        
        - `ArgParse`_
        - `Distribute`_
        - `ImageMagick`_
        - `modern-package-template`_
        - `Pdftk`_
        
        .. _`ArgParse`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse
        .. _`Distribute`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
        .. _`ImageMagick`: http://www.imagemagick.org/
        .. _`modern-package-template`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/modern-package-template
        .. _`Pdftk`: http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
        
        
        
        News
        ====
        
        0.2
        ---
        
        *Release Date: *
        
        * Switched to MIT License
        * Added command line argument for DPI
        * Added Python 2.6 compatability
        
        0.1
        ---
        
        *Release date: 1-Sep-2011*
        
        Produce print-quality TIFFs and JPGs from a directory of PDFs.
        
        * Works on multilayer PDFs and some types of bad vectors
        * Each page of a multipage PDF will become one TIFF
        * tif_dir must exist before running script
        * Hard-coded values for output file format and DPI
        * ImageMagic (convert) must be installed and on your system path
         
        Usage: serenifypdf <pdf_dir> <tif_dir>
        
        
Keywords: pdf print converter tiff jpg
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: System Administrators
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Classifier: Topic :: Printing
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
