Resizing PDF books

[RaDeuX]

I'm sorry if I duplicated a thread, but I'm having trouble with my JBL that I just got today in the mail. Great resolution pitch and everything, but I hate the way it scrolls. Apparently there's a program called PDFRead that will crop the pages for me, but I've been having issues with the Python Image Library. Maybe I'm better off just booting into Windows instead and use the simple .exe program. Is there a better alternative for the Mac? Or should I just give up and go Windows?

[RaDeuX]

I JUST figured it out. I have python 2.5 and 2.6 installed on OSX. The PIL gets installed in 2.6 for some reason and not 2.5. Does PDFRead v5 work in python 2.6?

Also... what is the JBL's profile in PDFRead v5?

[RaDeuX]

For some reason, I'm getting this error...

Temporary directory: /var/folders/J7/J7twrQr8HuSmttl7BDYKuU+++TI/-Tmp-/pdfread-TY9x08

Page 1/586: EXTRACT Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/home/Desktop/pdfread-v5-src/pdfread.py", line 619, in <module>
PdfConverter().main()
File "/Users/home/Desktop/pdfread-v5-src/pdfread.py", line 439, in main
self.convert_pages_to_png()
File "/Users/home/Desktop/pdfread-v5-src/pdfread.py", line 120, in convert_pages_to_png
raw_image = self.INPUT_FORMATS[self.options.input_format](self, i)
File "/Users/home/Desktop/pdfread-v5-src/pdfread.py", line 220, in extract_pdf
exec_cmd('pdftops', '-f', str(number), '-l', str(number), '-eps', self.input, 'page.eps')
File "/Users/home/Desktop/pdfread-v5-src/pdfread.py", line 606, in exec_cmd
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1097, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Apparently it's caused by the PIL, despite adding things to $PYTHONPATH

>>> import _imaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

[Ken Maltby]

You might want to find an Apple or Mac forum for these questions.