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PDF Catalogue (Working Title)
Software for organising, sorting, and viewing digital documents. Born out of frustration using Calibre—wanting something more like Foobar 2000 and other music library organisers+players.
Ideas
- PDFs (etc.) don't get moved to a a special folder, just leave them wherever you want / organise them however you want.
- Be able to 'watch' the user's directory for changes, and update without prompting
- Super-customisable layout.
- Fetch metadata online.
- Custom filters: regex with a nice GUI interface if needed.
- Use something zippy like MuPDF for rendering docs. That could be modular.
- Python or FreePascal, I guess.
- Rely on existing system, so use 'outside' programs for things like pdf reading/rendering
- config file for settings is fine.
- library directory (i don't need multiple, but might be useful)
- pdf viewer location, if want one not default (xdg-open)
- ExifTool location
- location for 'collections'
- 'panels'
- file browser (or maybe not)
- collections (like playlists, store as separate plaintext lists of files)
- keywords (tags)
- author
- subject
- OBSPDFC Official Blueberry Soft PDF Catalogue ??
Research
(Just have this urge to do things in FreePascal, but Python seems way easier)
FreePascal
- Reading a file in FreePascal Info on reading config files and parsing launch arguments.
- https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/read.html - reading from files and stdin
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- https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs#LCLIntf_Alternatives - `OpenDocument` uses the default external program
Python
- page-generator - WYSIWYG GUI tool for Python.
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company
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form
game-maker
genre
guide
hardware
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instrument
internet
japan
language
linux
list
melbourne
multiplayer
music
music-making
nintendo
open-source
organisation
pattern
person
project
protocol
ps2
recommendations
sandlot
series
snes
software
song
sport
switch
theme
tool
translation
video
videogame
videogames
website
wiki
windows
pdf_catalogue.txt · Last modified: 2022/10/11 15:39 by rjt