Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Try again! > > I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the > package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Thanks again, Ranjan. I have just done that, and now the command pdf-stapler --help works just fi

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:14:59 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be > > changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. > > Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever told you to change

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 09/02/2015 01:23 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Well, originally, I had posted the github source, but this had to be changed to meet Fedora's guidelines. Pointing to a github release URL is valid. Whoever told you to change "due to the guidelines" is wrong. Please post the review bugzilla URL.

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Try again! I just realized that the changes requested by BZ actually damaged the package. Try downloading and seeing if this works now. Best wishes, Ranjan On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the followi

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
pdfstapler -help On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:20:40 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: > > - > $ pdf-stapler --help > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> > Github exports archives for any given commit, tag, or branch head. If > upstream has tagged releases on GitHub, you can use that as a source. I > personally prefer to do this; it seems odd to involve a third party, and I > can reliably associate the version in the package with the source rep

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have just installed Ranjan's rpm on F22, but getting the following error: - $ pdf-stapler --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pdf-stapler", line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-package

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Well, but for that licensing discrepancy, it is good to go for Fedora. I did not want to deal with another process so I went the official route. I do hope that the licensing issue (it is really a non-issue -- the fact that there is no license file in the pypi.org release, but is there in the gi

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 2, 2015 12:51 PM, "Ranjan Maitra" wrote: > > Paul, > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar file on the pypi site. I have written se

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people > are not to be blamed for this however. > > The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar > file on the pypi site. I have written s

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 > pdf-stapler or pdfshuffler are fine tools if you just want to collate PDFs, but pdftk did a lot more. I've been using it for years to merge data into pre-built template PDFs. pdftk has a

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Raman Gupta
Ranjan, what about putting your package in copr (https://copr.fedoraproject.org/) so that people can add it as a repo easily e.g. "dnf copr enable ..."? Regards, Raman On 09/02/2015 01:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Paul, > > I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ pe

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Paul, I put in a review request to BZ, and it is a bit stuck there. The BZ people are not to be blamed for this however. The issue is a license file which exists on the git site, but not in the tar file on the pypi site. I have written several times to the author (Philip Stark) of the package

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
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Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm > > I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, > commandline repla

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
mber 02, 2015 at 7:20 PM > From: "Ranjan Maitra" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: pdftk > > You need PyPdf installed. > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:17:03 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > pdf-stapler --help > > Traceba

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
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Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
| > Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 > 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France > === > > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 02,

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
| | 59140 Dunkerque, France === > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at 6:57 PM > From: "Ranjan Maitra" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: pdftk > > Try it now, with 1 instead of 2 (you know where). > &

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
| | 59140 Dunkerque, France > === > > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at 4:26 PM > > From: "Ranjan Maitra" > > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Subject: Re: pdftk >

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
: "Ranjan Maitra" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: pdftk > > Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: > > http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm > > I personally have found pdf-stapler

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, I have put my rpm for pdf-stapler here, in case it helps anyone: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~maitra/pdf-stapler-0.3.0-1.fc22.noarch.rpm I personally have found pdf-stapler to be a very good, perhaps better, commandline replacement for pdftk (for my purposes, but of course, your needs ma

Re: pdftk

2015-09-02 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 1 September 2015 at 17:09, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Unfortunately, pdfshuffler does not have the same capabilities than pdftk. > It has a graphics interface. > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf Something like this should give you the same functionali

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > There is one command easy with pdftk: > pdftk file.pdf cat 3-4 output file2.pdf > that I cannot have with pdfshuffler. This can easily be done with pdfshuffler. Just load the .pdf, mark page 3 and 4, right click and choose "export selection". > pdftk, is a

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Patrick Dupre
z Diehl" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: pdftk > > On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > > It did not find any good alternative. > > dnf install poppler-utils pdfshuffler > > These tool

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 01.09.2015, Patrick Dupre wrote: > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. dnf install poppler-utils pdfshuffler These tools together can replace most pdftk functionality. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Ranjan Maitra
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234210 On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:20:54 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > > It did not find any good alternative. > > > > Thank. > > Not sure

Re: pdftk

2015-09-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 September 2015 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > What is the future of pdftk as part of fedora? > It did not find any good alternative. > > Thank. Not sure, maybe a question for the developers list. itext (I'm assuming it's the same itext), appears to be back: https://admin.fedorap

Re: pdftk

2015-05-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.05.2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > You can only wait for a few more weeks while the alternative > pdf-stapler is approved. Or you can use poppler-utils, and you could also install F19 (the latest Fedora with a working pdftk) on an USB stick. That's what I did to tailor my documents. It's qui

Re: pdftk

2015-05-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> It looks like that the last version of pdftk is pdftk-1.44-11.fc19.x86_64 > for fc21! > it provides me an error: > pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib64/gcj/itext/itext-2.1.7.jar.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > Where can I get: > itext-2

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread poma
On 13.12.2014 14:10, Heinz Diehl wrote: ... > I depend a lot on pdf merging functionality, I chose the shortest and > easiest way if all fails. At work, I'm bound to Windows anyway.. > http://cygwin.com Let go Luke -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:41:57 +0100 Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 13.12.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/?source=typ_t4_highlighted > > Not clear if this satisfies OSS requirements of Fedora but it would be at > > least a worthwhile alternative to pdftk's functi

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.12.2014, poma wrote: > https://www.winehq.org > Use the Force, Luke ... I do not want to run any Windows software on a Linux machine. Since I depend a lot on pdf merging functionality, I chose the shortest and easiest way if all fails. At work, I'm bound to Windows anyway.. -- users mail

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread poma
On 13.12.2014 10:41, Heinz Diehl wrote: ... > (alternatively, I'll use a Windows 7 machine at work to do the pdf merging). > https://www.winehq.org Use the Force, Luke ... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapro

Re: pdftk

2014-12-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 13.12.2014, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/?source=typ_t4_highlighted > Not clear if this satisfies OSS requirements of Fedora but it would be at > least a worthwhile alternative to pdftk's functions. The author of this package states: "It’s the first public a

Re: pdftk

2014-12-12 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Btw, I came across this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/?source=typ_t4_highlighted Not clear if this satisfies OSS requirements of Fedora but it would be at least a worthwhile alternative to pdftk's functions. Best wishes, Ranjan ___

Re: pdftk

2014-12-11 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:08:54 +0100 Marco Guazzone wrote: > > > > Regrettably it's a slightly modified AGPL and, though IANAL, it looks > > like the problematic additional restriction is still there: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html > > > > Which is a pity

Re: pdftk

2014-12-11 Thread Marco Guazzone
> > Regrettably it's a slightly modified AGPL and, though IANAL, it looks > like the problematic additional restriction is still there: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html > > Which is a pity, because I used to like pdftk and have been missing it > since it was d

Re: pdftk

2014-12-11 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 December 2014 at 10:59, Jon Ingason wrote: > Den 2014-12-11 05:08, Paul Allen Newell skrev: >> >> On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell >>> wrote: >>> On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2014

Re: pdftk

2014-12-11 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2014-12-11 05:08, Paul Allen Newell skrev: > > On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell >> wrote: >> >>> On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On W

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/10/2014 08:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:55 -0800 Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > It would be good if someone who could pi

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and wi

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread jd1008
On 12/10/2014 04:31 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/10/2014 07:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> I'm running pclos-kde, and I had not heard of pdftk, but my system has it > available in > the repos, so I looked up the description. It seems to be a very useful, > competent tool > with a lot of features, so I really don't understand why Fedora would drop > it. However, > it is available fr

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Doug
On 12/10/2014 07:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and wil

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that > > > > Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be > > > > missed. Given that

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that > > > Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be > > > missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it > > > is a bit usel

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:04:12 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that > > Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be > > missed. Given that Fedora

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that > Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be > missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it > is a bit useless to make

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Raman Gupta
On 12/10/2014 04:23 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: >> What is the story with pdftk? > > As pointed out by others, it used a really old Java stack that is no > longer supported. > > There is a more modern replacement called mcpdf. Thanks fo

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > What is the story with pdftk? As pointed out by others, it used a really old Java stack that is no longer supported. There is a more modern replacement called mcpdf. It supports the same command line syntax but has much more modern underpin

Re: pdftk

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 12/09/2014 09:48 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:01:46 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What is the story with pdftk? $ sudo yum list pdftk . Installed Packages pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19

Re: pdftk

2014-12-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:01:46 -0500 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > What is the story with pdftk? > > $ sudo yum list pdftk > > . > > Installed Packages > > pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19 > >

Re: pdftk

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:37:08PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > What is the story with pdftk? > $ sudo yum list pdftk > . > Installed Packages > pdftk.x86_641.44-11.fc19 > @fedora > Is it orphaned? That would be a bummer! I depend on it a lot.

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

2014-01-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> You've been affected by the recent selinux-policy-targeted bug, which > broke installation of a few updates as long as you didn't apply the > fix. > > Try reinstalling the java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless package and > following these instructions: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

2014-01-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:54:56 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:40:33 -0500 Deepak Bhole > wrote: > > > * Ranjan Maitra [2014-01-28 15:02]: > > > I have been having this error since this morning: I has no problems > > > last Thursday when I last used this so some update mus

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

2014-01-28 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:40:33 -0500 Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Ranjan Maitra [2014-01-28 15:02]: > > I have been having this error since this morning: I has no problems > > last Thursday when I last used this so some update must have created > > some problem somewhere. > > > > $ pdftk --nup 2x2 ra

Re: pdftk error (/usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD)

2014-01-28 Thread Deepak Bhole
* Ranjan Maitra [2014-01-28 15:02]: > I have been having this error since this morning: I has no problems > last Thursday when I last used this so some update must have created > some problem somewhere. > > $ pdftk --nup 2x2 random.pdf > /usr/bin/build-classpath: Failed to set JAVACMD > Can't get