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oops wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:01 pm boomaga was fine, but not currently developed. (in the MX repos I guess)
https://www.boomaga.org/index.html

• DEB in testrepo: https://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/test/b/boomaga/

hasmak wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:09 pm I am looking for something like Bullzip , Foxit, Sumatra, PDF Creator ...etc

• Inkscape (to automate use its CLI with some bits of Python scripting).
• QPDF (advanced CLI tool)

app4soft wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:11 pm ...Boomaga lastly packaged for MX-19, and might be manually installed on later MXs:

• DEB in testrepo: https://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/test/b/boomaga/

But this package depends on CUPS, as mentioned in description: https://github.com/Boomaga/boomaga

hasmak wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:09 pm Is there a PDF printer for Linux apart from CUPS
CUPS is very basic, no features , no merge, no append, does not even ask for file name or location
I am looking for something like Bullzip , Foxit, Sumatra, PDF Creator ...etc
If you know anything let me know
Thanks

oops wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:01 pm boomaga was fine, but not currently developed. (in the MX repos I guess)
https://www.boomaga.org/index.html

app4soft wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:11 pm
SumatraPDF works fine in Wine Staging on MX-23.

CharlesV wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:15 pm
This doesnt make sense to me. How would you possible merge from a printer? ( Or append ? ) ANd what kind of 'features' are you after for a PDF printer?

Using PDFArranger as m_pav mentioned, or PDf Master (v 4 free ) as I use, or many other PDf Editors out there for linux, Merge, Append, Editing, etc are ALL available.

But printing? ... Print to PDF from any app, some show options to create various things. Other Apps have Export to PDF which works pretty well and has options.

SO.. create the pdf and then work it with tools sure works for me. (And I come from the Windows world that you suggest tools from. )

CharlesV wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:49 am I know what those functions are. However, I have never *seen* any of those in a PDF Virtual Printer!

All of those things you mentioned are in an EDITOR .. (or at least in some editors) . You print something to a PDF and THEN you edit it doing all / any of those things. (Including the windows Foxit and Sumatra ).

hasmak wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:48 am SumatraPDF is a pdf reader not printer

m_pav wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:51 pm The OP is looking for an advanced PDF creation tool

1. print to CUPS with default PDF output;
2. use PDF Arranger and QPDF to manipulate output PDF pages to produce final PDF with needed pages layout.

m_pav wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:51 pmHaving a locally available system-wide PDF print engine that extends the capabilities of what can be done with the ensuring file would be a very welcome addition.

Software printed from >>>
> Print PDF > 
> processing in QPDF > 
>>> Final PDF with advanced layout.

Software printed from >>>
> QPDF preferences dialog >
> Print PDF with default settings >
> processing in QPDF according to prefernces set >
>>> Final PDF with advanced layout.

• https://github.com/ImageProcessing-Elec ... pdfmixtool
• https://github.com/Martinligabue/qpdf-yad-gui-script
• https://github.com/shakeelansari63/qpdf-gui

m_pav wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:51 pm Let's start off with the "Real PDF Printer" thing. Our CUPS print to PDF is about as real as they get, as are all other stand-alone and inbuilt PDF print systems provided within various packages, however, none that I know of within the Linux OSS community have the bells and whistles that @app4soft is looking for.

The OP is looking for an advanced PDF creation tool, that can do much of what they're looking for in a single operation at the point of creation and there's no harm in his question because the FOSS community has been sorely lacking this ability for a very long time. Among the many other tools, tweaks and utilities I was adding to the Windows machines I built or setup back in 2010 onwards, the open-source PDF Creator was added for all small business customers, and many heaped praise on our business for making this possible for them. It was steps like this that made it possible for us to literally take the town.

The Open Source community is doing itself a dis-service by not having this capability available on-tap. PDF Forge have their Open Source code available but the Linux community has either opted, or failed to pick it up and run with it. I wish someone would because it contains an awesome feature set I would love to see made available to Desktop Linux users.

Having a locally available system-wide PDF print engine that extends the capabilities of what can be done with the ensuring file would be a very welcome addition.

app4soft wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:52 pm
I'm asking @hasmak for usecase, because solution depends on what is the input for print job.

hasmak wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:15 am I know that I can print the files and use another pdf editor to stitch them together, but this is extra work that will have to be repeated every time there is a design change

Eadwine Rose wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:23 am In this particular instance it's easier to just chuck everything in a .zip file and then send that to the client.

hasmak wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:48 am I have to re-install wine and set it up from scarch

m_pav wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:18 pm
While I'm not much of a wine fan, is there any reason why you can't just delete the /home/<yourlogin>/.wine folder and re-run wine fusing wine notepad from the terminal to create and repopulate the new winedir?

m_pav wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:18 pm Some Windows PDF print solutions can be run as a service with full functionality to client machines accessing them remotely. Remember how I suggested Windows in a VM with a shared PDF Printer earlier in this thread?