ANN: pdfposter 0.8.1 - scale and tile PDF pages to print on multiple sheets

[jkn]

On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 6:21:55 PM UTC, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce pdftools.pdfposter 0.8.1, a tool to scale and 
> tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages. 
> 
> :Homepage:  https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/ 
> :Author:    Hartmut Goebel <h.go... at crazy-compilers.com> 
> :License:   GNU Public License v3 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later) 
> 
> :Quick Installation: 
>     pip install -U pdftools.pdfposter 
> 
> :Tarballs:  https://pypi.org/project/pdftools.pdfposter/#files 
> 
> 
> What is pdfposter? 
> -------------------- 
> 
> Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages. 
> 
> ``Pdfposter`` can be used to create a large poster by building it from 
> multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a 
> PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a 
> PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the 
> poster. 
> The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. 
> 
> This is much like ``poster`` does for Postscript files, but working 
> with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted 
> from PDF. :-) Indeed ``pdfposter`` was inspired by ``poster``. 
> 
> For more information please refer to the manpage or visit 
> the `project homepage <https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/>`_. 
> 
> 
> What's new in version 0.8.1 
> ----------------------------------------- 
> 
> * This is a bug-fix release for release 0.8. 
> 
> What's new in version 0.8 
> ----------------------------------------- 
> 
> * Be less strict when reading PDF files. 
> 
> * Enhance some help messages. 
> 
> * Drop support for Python 2 and Python <= 3.5. Minimum supported 
> versions are 
>   now 3.6 to 3.10. 
> 
> * Internal changes: 
> 
>   - Update required version of `PyPDF` to 2.1.1. 
>   - Enhance code quality. 
> 
> -- 
> Regards 
> Hartmut Goebel 
> 
> | Hartmut Goebel | h.go... at crazy-compilers.com | 
> | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

Thanks for this - yes, I remember poster for n-up Postscript files...