Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface

Hi, do the lines at https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger#for-developers need something additional?

I have PDF Arranger installed on my main computer with FreeBSD-CURRENT but testing on a clean machine (helloSystem 0C155) there's this:

FreeBSD% pwd
/home/liveuser
FreeBSD% ls
Desktop     xorg.conf.d
FreeBSD% mkdir Documents
FreeBSD% cd Documents 
FreeBSD% git clone https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git

Cloning into 'pdfarranger'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 29, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (29/29), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done.
remote: Total 2963 (delta 15), reused 11 (delta 7), pack-reused 2934
Receiving objects: 100% (2963/2963), 1.14 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2065/2065), done.
FreeBSD% cd pdfarranger

FreeBSD% pip install -e .

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Obtaining file:///usr/home/liveuser/Documents/pdfarranger
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/local/bin/python3.7 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/usr/home/liveuser/Documents/pdfarranger/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/usr/home/liveuser/Documents/pdfarranger/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-zctcsy20            
         cwd: /usr/home/liveuser/Documents/pdfarranger/                                                        
    Complete output (5 lines):                                                                                 
    Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                         
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>                                                                     
      File "/usr/home/liveuser/Documents/pdfarranger/setup.py", line 24, in <module>                           
        from DistUtilsExtra.command import (                                                                   
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DistUtilsExtra'                                                      
    ----------------------------------------                                                                   
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
FreeBSD% date ; uname -v
Sat Jan  9 11:27:37 EST 2021
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE r354233 GENERIC 
FreeBSD% pkg query '%o %v %R' python3 python37 py37-pip
lang/python3 3_3 FreeBSD
lang/python37 3.7.9 FreeBSD
devel/py-pip 20.2.3 FreeBSD
FreeBSD% 

I am an avid user of pdfarranger and was wondering if the project would be interested in updating its application icon? I have made a draft as a suggestion but am happy to modify it further (it is an svg file, but I cannot directly embed that here):

As of version 1.7.0 PDF Arranger is not exactly portable as it saves its configuration file (config.ini) in AppData:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\pdfarranger\config.ini

My request- when PDF Arranger starts it should check whether its program folder contains the configuration file (config.ini) and if it is there it should use it (load data from and save data to this configuration file, not using AppData for the configuration file, but the program folder instead).

This small change would make PDF Arranger truly portable (not writing outside its own folder) and I suppose that this feature will not be hard to be implemented.

When using PDFarranger to duplicate pages that contain annotations using copy and "paste after", or using "duplicate", I observed the following:

• Editing the annotation (using Okular) on one page would modify the annotation on the other page (after save & reload)
• A new annotation created on one page would also appear on the other page (after save & reload)

Even deleting all annotations (and saving/reloading) does not clear the problem. Any subsequent annotations are still shared by all copies of the page, including new copies created when the pages had no annotations. Even copying such a page into a new file does not clear the problem.

Duplicating pages without annotations works as expected, i.e. any subsequent annotations only affect the page annotated, not any copies of the page.

Moderation Edit: in most cases the answer is pip install --upgrade pikepdf Update: 1.7.1 includes a workaround. Upgrade what ever is more convenient for you. /@dreua

Hi there, I have a problem with the arch software package version of the software. Every time I try to save a modified document it does not do so but instead throws the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.py", line 695, in choose_export_pdf_name
    self.save(mode, file_out)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.py", line 157, in wrapper
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.py", line 769, in save
    exporter.export(self.pdfqueue, to_export, file_out, mode, m)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdfarranger/exporter.py", line 168, in export
    pdf_output.pages.append(new_page)
TypeError: only pages can be inserted

if I use the flatpak version it works fine. Although I would really prefer to use the native arch package

Describe the bug

When attempting to crop a page, it gets resized instead.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open a PDF file
2. Select a page
3. Open the "Page Format" dialog
4. Set one of the text fields for cropping to some value, e.g. 60
5. Confirm, exiting the dialog.

Expected behavior

The page gets cropped by specified amount.

Actual behavior

Page appears to be small - it is resized or the view is zoomed out, but likely the former. It is not cropped.

Input files

test.pdf attached.

Screenshots

I can provide a video if needed.

System and Versions

• pdfarranger 1.7.1 (.msi package)
• pikepdf version - not sure, but whatever is packaged with above ^
• OS = Windows 10

Additional info

I also noticed that I cannot resize the page - when attempting to change the value in the text field for scale factor, it gets reset to 0 at first opportunity. Pressing The "+" button next to this field does nothing.

Merge and rearrange pages for booklet printing.

Issue: #438

The action is available through a new entry in the edit dialog. The generated pages are sized using the source pages (adding widths and using max of height of the two pages) and cannot be sized manually (as this would involve rescaling the source pages).

Note that

• I didn't implement tests. If you want I can have a look to it.
• The behavior of the "cancel" action is not atomic, as I use some other actions (add, delete, insert)
• Rotated pages are not properly handled, I can also have a look to it if you wan.

This PR might be a bit premature, however there already is some working code and it doesn't break anything else, so I created it anyway, also because I would be happy to have feedback on my code. It's my very first time sending some (more or less) serious amount of code to an open source project, so sorry if things are a bit clumsy.

On Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, I install pdfarranger according to the guidance here using the following steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git
$ pyenv shell datasci
$ python --version
Python 3.9.1
$ cd pdfarranger
$ ./setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/werner/Public/repo/github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger.git/./setup.py", line 24, in <module>
    from DistUtilsExtra.command import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DistUtilsExtra'

Then I try the following but still failed:

$ pip install distutils-extra
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement distutils-extra (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for distutils-extra

Any hints for fixing this problem? See here for the relevant discussion.

Regards, HZ

Describe the bug

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. open a file pdf
2. erase one or more pages
3. close pdfarranger
4. See error: pdfarranger forgets the name of the file ad uses xdg-desktop-portal-kde when the default file manager is thunar. Even if I use CTRL+S to save the file pdfarranger needs to insert again the same file name.

Expected behavior

the previous version was ok

Hi,

It would be great if you could package PDFarranger in a flatpak package (see https://flatpak.org/ for info/documentation). That way non techy users would be able to install the application without having to install separate packages. I also recommend a flatpak package because it is distribution independent, avoids dependency problems and incompatibilities with older/newer Linux distribution versions, and allows sandboxing for additional security.

Thanks

We now have a lot of (and enough ;-) ) new features in master that needs to be tested. New developments will wait for 1.7.0.

I plan to release 1.6.0 by mid-July if no annoying bugs are found by then.

This would be really handy when merging PDFs.

Having a Table of Contents with a link to the start of the individual PDFs would be a nice to have.

Something like this

(This image is from https://www.sejda.com/merge-pdf)

The names can be derived from the individual pdf files.

What do you think?

self.save_file is used for "save all to single file" self.export_file is used for all other "exportmodes"

@petaflot would you like to test this before merge?

Describe the bug

With a PDF open in PDF Arranger, even if you don't make any changes, you are prompted to save on close

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open a pdf
2. click exit
3. observe that a save prompt appears

Expected behavior

I expect that if I open a PDF document, and I dont make any changes, I should be able to immediately close it without having to save anything. Sometimes I just want to open PDFs to make a export of a selection, and not create an overall project with the PDF..

System and Versions

• PDF Arranger version and where you get it (distro package, flatpak, pip, git, download, ...) 1.9.2 (flatpak)
• pikepdf version and where you get it (distro package, pip, git, ...) 6.2.6 (came with the program)
• OS name and version (e.g.: Windows 10, Fedora 33, ...) Arch Linux (Gnome 43.2 wayland)

Describe the bug

following on Multi-page document splitting (feature request) #758

the counter starts when pdfarranger is started, and just increments every time pages are exported.

this is typically a problem when:

• opening a large document
• exporting a bunch of pages
• close the document
• re-open the document at a later time to finish the work
• exporting pages again : the counter will start at zero again, every time pages are exported the filename needs to be corrected

Expected behavior

set the counter to the value specified by the user, overriding the previous value if necessary

xsane does it right

The order of pages seems to be ok but I see strange results on the document linked in 720. The text is overlapped with text from another page:

Originally posted by @kbengs in https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger/issues/721#issuecomment-1250522146