Create TIFs and JPGs from crappy PDFs
Project description
PDF Serenity Now
PDF Serenity Now was born from our increasing contact with annoying PDFs. The biggest culprits are multi-layered PDFs and PDFs with large pictures or graphics embedded in them which take forever to print, if you can get them to print at all. We 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.
At this time, it converts a single-page or multi-page PDF to a folder of TIFs. It handles large, crappy, multi-layer PDFs if you have enough RAM. Poppler and Imagemagick do all of the hard work.
In the future it will be smarter about converting, and offer more target formats (JPG, PDF). The ultimate goal is a service where users can upload/submit a crappy PDF and get a nice set of TIFs or JPGs or a fixed PDF returned to them. It will have a control panel where you can monitor and manipulate conversions in progress or in a queue.
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0.6.6
Release Date: 2013-01-15
Fixed many import and Python3 errors
Added command line switch to preserve intermediate PS files (default is delete)
Mucho code cleanup and extra error checking
Usage: serenifypdf <pdf_file> [<output_dpi>] [–preserve-ps]
0.5
Release Date: 2013-01-14
Removed pyPdf since it is a dead project and not Python3 ready.
0.4
Release Date: 2013-01-14
Changed to a two step conversion process: PDF -> postscript -> TIF
Split out serenifypdf, pdfbursttops, and psconverttotif into separate modules
Can only convert one PDF (but multiple pages) at a time
PS file and TIF file locations are standardized based on PDF file name
Removed Python 2.6 and Python 2.7 support (Python 3.2 and 3.3 only now)
Usage: serenifypdf <pdf_file> [<output_dpi>]
0.3
Release Date: None
Switched to Poppler for splitting PDFs
Added pdfbursttops script for splitting PDFs (using Poppler)
0.2
Release Date: 2011-09-02
Switched to MIT License
Added command line argument for DPI
Added Python 2.6 compatability
0.1
Release date: 2011-09-01
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>
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