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       Show HN: Pystitcher - A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk
        
       Author : captn3m0
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2021-12-30 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 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.
        
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