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makes book excerpts, specify pdf as command line argument
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## Pure, Petite Program to Prepare PDF Excerpts Painlessly (PPPPPEP) 👏🏿 🎉 🍕
### Requirements ###
Make sure you have [PDFtk](https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/) installed and in your system path.
> **Mac users** - Be aware of [this PDFTk issue](https://github.com/jjwilly16/node-pdftk/issues/3)
### Installation ###
You can easily install it with [npm](http://npmjs.com):
```bash
npm i bookexcerpt
```
Make sure excerpts.js is in the directory with the PDFs which you're trying to use this Pure, Petite Program to Prepare PDF Excerpts Painlessly (PPPPPEP).
### How to use ###
This PPPPPEP takes two arguments, the PDF you wish to excerpt ("Main.pdf") and the watermark PDF ("Watermark.pdf")
Run the following command in the directory with both PDFs
```bash
node excerpts.js Main.pdf Watermark.pdf
```
The output is a final PDF titled "Main_excerpt.pdf"
Currently, the excerpter is set to make a pdf excerpt that is no longer than 20% of the total pdf.
Thanks to [jjwilly16](https://github.com/jjwilly16/node-pdftk) for their PDF Toolkit Node Wrapper and my code papas [Tim](https://github.com/Fauntleroy) and [Daniel](https://github.com/sadbumblebee) for the emotional and technical support.
Also, I still don't know what promises are, even though I use them in this