Annotate pages from source pdfs and collect them into a single pdf.
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If directories are specified, all .pdf files within are used as input. The input pdfs are sorted in combined alphanumeric order after segmenting the names on whitespaces, '-', and '-'. Sorting can be disabled with --keep-order.
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If specified, header and footer images are attached to each page. The source page is shrunk to fit. The heights of the header and footer are specified in percents of the total page height.
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If label separator is specified, the portion of the filename before the separator is used to annotate each page. For example, if --label-sep is set to '-' and an input filename is L1-VENDOR-FIXTURE.pdf, each page of the pdf will be labeled with "L1".
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Label font, size and color can be changed. Note that not all fonts listed in "convert -list font" work. You can test which fonts work with the following command.
convert -font "FONT_NAME" -size 128x128 label:test test.png
It's working if the generated png file contains "test".
All pages are converted to bitmaps and processed with ImageMagick. All pages in the output pdf are bitmaps. The resolution can be changed with --dpi. To install ImageMagick, visit https://imagemagick.org.
EXAMPLE:
Let's say the SPECS directory contains the following files.
L1-VENDOR1-FIXTURE1.pdf
D1-VENDOR2-FIXTURE1.pdf
L2-VENDOR2-FIXTURE2.pdf
The following command will create output.pdf which contains all pages of the three pdfs in the order D1, L1 and L2. Each page of the output will have header and footer attached and labeled with D1, L1 or L2 on the bottom right.
$ ilovetj.py -l "-" -o output.pdf SPECS
This program was written after being horribly shocked at Seulki Kim seulki@looplighthing.nyc spending literally hours copy-pasting pdf pages into InDesign and manually labeling them.