Allow to do page tiling

[Nokia808]

Hi. This option is already possible by QPDF !

User should be able to enter the following values:

• row number,
• column number,
• spacing (in cm/mm ...)

If you accept to add this feature, then, kindly do not forget to add sub-option to support right to left arrangement which needed for Arabic & Hebrew PDF when selecting a raw number higher than 1 ....

[jeromerobert]

this option is already possible by QPDF

How ?

[Nokia808]

@jeromerobert
Hi dear. There is an application called "PDF Mix Tool" already do this. Currently "change page layout" + "page alignment" + "margins" are all in one window. But in future developer of "PDF Mix Tool" will separate them, which is better. "PDF Mix Tool" is here:
https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/pdfmixtool

Currently, developer of "PDF Mix Tool" is working very hard to bring version 0.7 which may take few months from now to be completed ... I asked him to add features & he, kindly, added them & will add. I discover your nice application & see it very promising, so asked to add features that make it a more complete tool ...

Regarding "PDF Mix Tool", go to single file mode, then go to menu, & try to edit any profile for "Multipages" & you will see these options - see screenshots:

[jeromerobert]

Ok so this is about porting a pdfmixtool feature to pdfarranger. Really not an emergency.

[jeromerobert]

The QPDF code for this feature is here:
https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/pdfmixtool/-/blob/b8a9bf3c/src/pdf_edit_lib/pdf_writer.cpp#L223-393

[angsch]

Dear fellow developers,

I have the tiling working with pikepdf now and next is the integration into pdfarranger. I see two options.

• We go for an in-memory rendering solution similar to the page scaling feature. Only on export, the pages are physically glued together. This requires the class Page to support multiple source documents.
• We go for a temporary file similar to the blank page feature. Programmatically this should be the easier solution.

What are your thoughts?

[kbengs]

I would vote for the temporary file option because I guess option 1 would be much more complicated, and also because I think it will conflict less with "Making pdfarranger suitable for large PDFs" I am working on. 😃

[jeromerobert]

I have the tiling working with pikepdf now and next is the integration into pdfarranger.

Great job !

I see two options.

I also vote for the temporary file option.

[kbengs]

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