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<style>p{margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:black}</style></head><body bgcolor="#ffffca"><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><b>Important Note for Linux users</b></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">You will find thelast version of Linux installers in the beta directory. <br></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">pdfbooklet_3.0.6_all.deb hs been tested and seems OK. <br></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The .rpm installer has not been tested. <br></p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">For the tar.gz files, see the dependencies below. <br><br></p>
<p><br></p><p>PdfBooklet is developed originally in Windows and for Windows.Nevertheless it works perfectly on Linux, we have made the codecompatible. It runs in Python 2.7 or 3.4.</p>
<p><br></p><p><b>1) Installation</b></p><p>You sould normally use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">.deb file</span> which should work out of the box.<br>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">.rpm</span> file is not yet tested, and the dependencies are not properly set. <br> </p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span> <br></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><p>In case these installers do not work for you, we are providing other solutions. </p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 40px;"><b>a) Install from source</b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">Decompress the file : <i>Install by unzipping – linux.zip </i>in a directory where you have full write rights. Run pdfbooklet.py with the following command :</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">python pdfbooklet.py</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">or<span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">python3 pdfbooklet.py</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">If you have the dependencies satisfied, the program should run. Ifnot, either install the missing packages, if you know how to do that,or use the second solution :</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 40px;"><b>b) Install the pyinstaller bundle</b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">To solve the dependencies problem, we have built a bundle withpyinstaller, which contains everything needed : Python3, Gtk3, Poppler.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">Unzip the big file : pdfbooklet 3.x.x pyinstaller.zip, in a directory where you have write rights. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">Run the file : pdfbooklet</p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 40px;"><b>c) Install from tarball</b></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">We offer also the tarballs in 32 and 64 bits if you know how to install them. </p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><i>2) Known problems<br></i></b></span></p><ol> <li style="font-family: monospace;"> <p>Dependencies problems : see below the modules which must be installed. Otherwise consider using the pyinstaller bundle. </p> </li> <li> <p>pdfbooklet needs read/write rights in the forder wherepdfbooklet.cfg is located and the installer does not always providesthis. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><i><br> </i></b></span></p> </li></ol>
<p style="margin-top: 9pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Technical information </i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p> The needed dependencies for python3 are :<br> python-gi<br> python-gi-cairo<br></p><p> python3-gi<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> python3-cairo</span><br></p><p> python3-gi-cairo</p><p> gir1.2-gtk-3.0</p><p> gir1.2-poppler-0.18<br> They are installed with the following commande line :<br></p>
<p> - sudo apt-get install python-gi python-gi-cairo python3-gi <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">python3-cairo </span>python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-poppler-0.18 </p><p><br></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p>For python 2.7 :</p><p>- sudo apt-get install python-gobject-cairo</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p></body></html>
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