#!/bin/python """ A script for generating A5 size pdf zines with a text-file input, under development, GPL3 Licence, Mara Karagianni May 2021 """ import os import random import subprocess import sys from zine_maker import Zine def shuffle_zine(finput, foutput): # set font for all text zine = Zine(orientation="P", unit="mm", format="A5") chapter_list = zine.shuffle_chapters(finput) proc = subprocess.Popen( ["pdfunite"] + chapter_list + [foutput], stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE ) out, err = proc.communicate() if err: print("Something went wrong!", err.decode('utf-8'), sep="\n") else: print("PDF saved as {}".format(foutput)) os.system("mv ./*_chapter.pdf ./.tmp") os.system("rm ./.tmp/*_chapter.pdf") if __name__ == '__main__': # file to get the text if len(sys.argv) > 1: if len(sys.argv) == 3: output = sys.argv[2] filename = sys.argv[1] else: filename = "./zines/zinemaker_screen.pdf" output = "./zines/zinemaker{}.pdf".format(random.randint(1, 40)) shuffle_zine(filename, output)