On 2025-01-13 10:37 +0000, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion wrote:
Since this is intended to be open source, I was really hoping not to rely on an external tool. Code branching is the opposite of fun for; if windows and the user has installed PDFtk, use this external executable path, else if linux and pdfjam, use this command
pdftk works on linux too, and in fact is what I would have used/suggested as I never heard of pdfjam. Seem it is part of TeX, which of course we have anyway for Therion, so it does make sense in this context.
Hence my wish for something internal. Much sadness.
I take your point that therion probably could be extended to do multipage non-atlas PDFs with maps and headers allocated to different pages, or as you say: <some layout><page break><more mayout> might be the right paradigm. It might not even be too difficult... Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware http://wookware.org/