implement background & multibackground commands

[tspr]

both commands are very much needed commands for classic office usage - virtual version of printing on letterhead paper

[vog]

For reference, and to increase the chance that volunteers will be found:

Could you provide the exact PDFtk commands you'd like to be able to run with Mcpdf?

[tspr]

Volker,

Say, i have a backgrounds pdf file (my letterhead with first page, following page in letterhead pdf

Then i used to use

pdftk -in myletter.pdf  multibackground letterhead.pdf -output  outfile.pdf

Since the claim is to replace pdftk with java - jar mcpdf, the rest will stay the same

by the way:

create a file /bin/mcpdf:

content:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar /path/to/mcpdf-0-x-y.jar "$@"

cheers

Thomas

Am 18.06.2015 um 01:54 schrieb Volker Grabsch notifications@github.com:

For reference, and to increase the chance that volunteers will be found:

Could you provide the exact PDFtk commands you'd like to be able to run with Mcpdf?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[vog]

Thanks for specifying the command. Hope that volunteers will be found.

Regarding your second proposal, it would be great if you could create a pull request for README.org. (However, note that the path should be ~/bin/mcpdf for user installation and /usr/local/bin/mcpdf for system-wide installation. Also, for portability the shbang line should be #!/bin/sh. Or, if you insist on using Bash, use #!/usr/bin/env bash as Bash is not always installed to /bin on all Unix systems.)

[tspr]

Volker,

Thanks for specifying the command. Hope that volunteers will be found.

Regarding your second proposal, it would be great if you could create a pull request for README.org.

?!? "I�m a printer of little brains�� There�s a lot of things on my plate, one of them being to have to learn about all that pull request whatnot. Ain�t gonna happen soon, i�m afraid. So, do go ahead and make it yours, i googled it up anyhow, so i shan�t claim any more cleverness than being able to google it up properly.

(However, note that the path should be ~/bin/mcpdf for user installation and /usr/local/bin/mcpdf for system-wide installation. Also, for portability the shbang line should be #!/bin/sh. Or, if you insist on using Bash, use #!/usr/bin/env bash as Bash is not always installed to /bin on all Unix systems.)

right, /bin/sh it is. (just remebered the wrong shebang typing the mails by heart)
i actually put the jar in its own directory in /opt/mcpdf, and linked around a little, to be able to update without fiddling too much in /bin, but that�s just me.

best regards

Thomas