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rrthomas / pdfjam

The pdfjam package for manipulating PDF files
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Feature request: allow shortedge rotation of pages from pdfjam #55

Closed GuillaumeFromage closed 2 years ago

GuillaumeFromage commented 2 years ago

Hi!

There is a pretty good workaround to get pages odd pages 180 degrees when making signatures, by using: pdfjam --preamble '\usepackage{everyshi}\makeatletter\EveryShipout{\ifodd\c@page\pdfpageattr{/Rotate 180}\fi}\makeatother' (don't worry, I'm not smart, I've took this from https://github.com/jenom/pdfbook2/blob/master/pdfbook2/pdfbook2#L153). The issue is that this is a clunky workaround, especially since it rely on everyshi.sty, which I don't know what that is, but I know there should be a check for it in code.

Is this some oddball feature that nobody uses? Should I just go ahead and implement? Are there plans to migrate this code to python?

GuillaumeFromage commented 2 years ago

Never mind the python bit, as the python code seems to be ported from shell in pdfjam-extras, so it isn't a hassle to recode.

rrthomas commented 2 years ago

I would be happy to receive a PR for this!