---
categories:
- PDF
- Python
cover: zac.jpg
cover_alt: splitting shaping things, by bruce sterling
date: 16/11/2022
description: Split double-paged DPF
git: https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/pdf-zac
slug: pdf-zac
title: PDF ZAC
---


There is this book i want to print (see [Birds press](https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~kamo/projects/birds-press/), but the pages are already coupled 2 by 2 and so the booklet printing doesn't work.

This script uses [pypdf2](https://pypdf2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/cropping-and-transforming.html) to crop and transform the a4 horizontal pages of the pdf into 2 a5 vertical ones.

Good way to procrastinate eh

## Usage

First install the requirements (actually just PyPDF2)

`pip install -r requirements.txt`

The script takes a `input.pdf` and gives out a `output.pdf`.

Then run the code.

`python3 zac.py`