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TODO: use pdfrw, pypdf2
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plakativ
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Plakativ is German for "striking" or "eye-catching" and comes from the German
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word "Plakat" which means poster in English.
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This software allows one to stretch a PDF document across multiple pages that
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can then be printed on a common inkjet printer and be glued together into a
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larger poster.
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Features
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Plakativ allows one to make posters with three different goals in mind:
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- I want a poster of size X
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- I want a poster X times the input page size
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- I have X pages of paper and want to print the biggest possible poster on them
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In contrast to other solutions, plakativ tries hard to find a page
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configuration that wastes as little paper as possible, offering three different
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layouter algorithms.
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Comparison to PosteRazor
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http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/
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PosteRazor served as the inspiration for this software. But in contrast to
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PosteRazor, plakativ allows PDF documents as input and outputs PDF document
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with the exact same quality as the input. It is thus not necessary anymore
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to first do a lossy rasterization of an input PDF so that one can work with
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PosteRazor.
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Comparison to pdfposter
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https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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- no GUI
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- cumbersome box definition
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- no page borders for glueing
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- superfluous empty pages
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- only very simple layouter
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