Download & Installation

Flyer Composer for Windows and Linux can be downloaded from http://crazy-compilers-com/flyer-composer.

Instructions for Windows Users

  1. Flyer Composer requires Python 3. If you don’t have Python 3 installed already, download and install Python 3.7 (or a newer version) from https://python.org/download/

    During installation, make sure to check “Include into PATH”.

  2. If you already have Python installed, please check that your Python directory (normally C:\Python37 for Python 3.7) and the Python Scripts directory (normally C:\Python37\Scripts) are in the system path. If not, just add them in My Computer ‣ Properties ‣ Advanced ‣ Environment Variables to the Path system variable.

  3. Install Flyer Composer and all requirements by running

    pip install flyer-composer
    

    If the command pip is unknown to you system, please refer to the pip homepage for help.

  4. The GUI can then be found in C:\Python37\Scripts\ (assuming you are using Python 3.7.

    Or run the console command flyer-composer --help to get detailed help.

Instructions for GNU/Linux and other Operating Systems

Most current GNU/Linux distributions provide packages for Flyer Composer and Flyer Composer GUI. Simply search your distribution’s software catalog.

Also many vendors provide Python, and some even provide Flyer Composer and Flyer Composer GUI. Please check your vendor’s software repository.

If your distribution or vendor does not provide a current version of Flyer Composer please read on.

If your vendor does not provide python3 please download Python 3.7 from https://www.python.org/download/ and follow the installation instructions there.

If you distribution or vendor missed providing pip3, alongside python3, please check your vendor’s or distribution’s software repository for a package called pip3 or python3-pip. If this is not provided, please refer to the pip homepage for help.

Optionally you might want to install PyPDF2, PyQt5 and python-poppler-qt5 - which are requirements for Flyer Composer - provided by your distribution or vendor, so at least these package will be maintained by your distribution. Check for packages named python3-pypdf2, python3-qt5-widgets, python3-qt5-gui, python3-qt5-network, python3-qt5-xml, python3-poppler-qt5, or that like.

Then continue with Installing Flyer Composer using pip3 below.

Installing Flyer Composer using pip3

After installing Python (and optionally the other required packages), just run:

sudo pip3 install flyer-composer

to install Flyer Composer for all users. For installing Flyer Composer for yourself only, run:

pip3 install --user flyer-composer

If your system does not have network access

Note

Installation of poppler and python-poppler-qt5 is missing here.

  1. Download

  2. Run

    sudo pip3 install flyer-composer-*.tar.gz PyPDF2-*.tar.gz \
              PyQt5-*.whl
    

    respective

    pip3 install --user flyer-composer-*.tar.gz PyPDF2-*.tar.gz PyQt5-*.whl