[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pystitcher - A Declarative Alternative to P... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Pystitcher - A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk Author : captn3m0 Score : 69 points Date : 2021-12-30 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | GranPC wrote: | Neat, this looks pretty useful for a project I'm working on. | What's the performance like? | captn3m0 wrote: | I've tested it against a 800 page compilation and didn't face | any issues : https://github.com/captn3m0/pdp-book. Takes ~2 | seconds for a fresh build on my system right now. | time pystitcher --verbose complete.md output.pdf | [2021-12-31 00:00:48] INFO:pystitcher.stitcher:Deleting | temporary files real 2.244 user 2.160 sys 0.063 pcpu | 99.07 | | I've run it against entr[0] for live-recompilations, and it was | pretty good. | | [0]: https://github.com/clibs/entr | johntb86 wrote: | I'm used to seeing markup languages (ab)used as configuration | languages, but this is the first time I've seen markdown used | that way. Though the input has a lot of links, so it makes sense | in a way. | jimnotgym wrote: | Slight aside...today I received a pdf that was 90 degrees from | being correct on screen in Adobe reader, and I clicked on the | 'rotate' button to find that Adobe has made this a subscription | feature! | ratsmack wrote: | I left Adobe a long time ago and started using Foxit. It's not | perfect, but gets the job done for considerably less money. | xtiansimon wrote: | On Windows I run Adobe XI, mostly because I don't like the look | of Acrobat DC. And I guess bonus, you can rotate--sheesh! | db65edfc7996 wrote: | If you rotate your monitor, is that circumventing the DRM? | Tomte wrote: | PDF on Windows is... sad. I've settled on Okular, for now. Yes, | the KDE tool. They have a standalone Windows installer. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-30 23:00 UTC)