Handling external dependencies about dungeon-sheets HOT 5 CLOSED

I made the pdflatex dependency optional in 0648a08. If the command is present, the spellbook is made, otherwise it's skipped. Not perfect but makes it a little bit friendlier in the short-term until I can remove the external dependencies.

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I partly solved the dependency on pdftk in 3368a43. It now uses the pdfrw package as a fallback if pdftk is no available. There are some limitations, though, as outlined in the README:

• Produces v1.3 PDF files
• Not able to flatten PDF forms
• Will produce separate character-sheets, spell-lists and spell-books.

I'll leave this issue open for now since it would be nice to get rid of pdftk entirely someday.

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Yeah I agree. The biggest obstacle was that the WotC template for character sheets makes use of fillable fields in the PDF; I couldn't find a python library that supported this feature. If anyone knows of anything, the https://github.com/canismarko/dungeon-sheets/blob/master/dungeonsheets/make_sheets.py#L275 function could be modified without too much trouble.

As far as making the spellbook goes, that was mostly because it was it was fast to implement it in LaTeX.

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Wow!

Thanks for the changes :) I will test and provide feedback asap.

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Since there's been no comments in over a year, I'm assuming the fix is acceptable.

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