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Jay Berkenbilt 2024-01-09 13:35:23 -05:00
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## Flexible Assembly
This section discusses modifications to the command-line syntax to make it easier to add flexibility
going forward without breaking backward compatibility. The main thrust will be to create
non-positional alternatives to some things that currently use positional arguments (`--pages`,
`--overlay`, `--underlay`), as was done for `--encrypt` in 11.7.0, to make it possible to add
additional flags.
going forward without breaking backward compatibility. In qpdf 11.9.0, we added non-positional
options to `--pages`, `--overlay`, `--underlay` and modifid configuration to make it easier to add
new options.
In several cases, we allow specification of transformations or placements. In this context:
* The origin is always lower-left corner.
@ -222,21 +221,6 @@ In several cases, we allow specification of transformations or placements. In th
* A rectangle may also be just one of `M|C|B|T|A` to refer to a page's media, crop, bleed, trim,
or art box.
Tweak `--pages` similarly to `--encrypt`. As an alternative to `--pages file [--password=p] range
--`, support `--pages --file=x --password=y --range=z --`. This allows for a more flexible syntax.
If `--file` appears, positional arguments are disallowed. The same applies to `--overlay` and
`--underlay`.
```
OLD: qpdf 2.pdf --pages 1.pdf --password=x . 3.pdf 1-z -- out.pdf
NEW: qpdf 2.pdf --pages --file=1.pdf --password=x --file=. --file 3.pdf --range=1-z -- out.pdf
```
This makes it possible to add additional flags to do things like control how document-level features
are handled, specify placement options, etc. Given the above framework, it would be possible to add
additional features incrementally, without breaking compatibility, such as selecting or splitting
pages based on tags, article threads, or outlines.
It's tempting to allow assemblies to be nested, but this gets very complicated. From the C++ API,
there is no problem using the output of one `QPDFAssembler` as the input to another, but supporting
this from the CLI is hard because of the way JSON/arg parsing is set up. If people need to do that,