pecha-printer
པར་གཞི་སྒྲིག་ཆས། Pecha Printer
Program to convert a pdf into a ready to print “Pecha”, traditional Tibetan volumes.
ཕབ་ལེན། Download Installer
ཚད་མཐོའི་འཇུག་སྤྲོད། Advanced Install
- ཀུ་ཤུ་རྟགས་ཅན་ཆེད། Mac & Linux:
- ཕེ་ཐོན་མ་ལག་ཐོན་རིམ་ 3.7 ཕབ་ལེན་བྱས་ཏེ་འཇུག་སྤྲོད་བྱོས། Install Python 3.7
- པར་གཞི་སྒྲིག་ཆས་ཀྱི་ཁུག་མ་ཕབ་ལེན་བྱོས། Download Pecha Printer
- Open Terminal and run
python3 install.py - Open Terminal and run
python3 pechaprinter.pyw
Why use pecha-printer?
- printing one pecha page per paper sheet wastes a lot of paper
- grouping images 3 by 3 in photoshop is difficult and time consuming
- A requires a lot of reordering of pecha pages,
- B only requires to combine the 3 piles in order to get a pecha ready for reading!
Development Roadmap
To do:
- Windows installer
- Mac installer
- redesign the UI
- localization
- custom paper size
- option to binarise all images for unity
- combine multiple pdfs
- bundle for distribution
Wish list:
- split pdfs on outline and name files after section names
License
The code is Copyright 2019 Buddhist Digital Resource Center, and is provided under Apache License 2.0.