fixed up file path, fixed up some gitignores, add version support, working on a better install and binary compilation

utils/mergepdfs.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import sys
+import os
+from PyPDF2 import PdfMerger
+
+def merge_pdfs(output_pdf, input_pdfs):
+    merger = PdfMerger()
+
+    # Validate and add each input PDF
+    for pdf in input_pdfs:
+        if not os.path.isfile(pdf):
+            print(f"Error: The input file '{pdf}' does not exist.")
+            continue
+        try:
+            merger.append(pdf)
+            print(f"Added '{pdf}' to the merger.")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Error processing file '{pdf}': {e}")
+
+    # Check if any valid PDFs were loaded
+    if not merger.pages:
+        print("No valid PDFs to merge. Please check your input files.")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    # Attempt to write to the output PDF
+    try:
+        merger.write(output_pdf)
+        print(f"PDFs merged successfully into '{output_pdf}'")
+    except PermissionError:
+        print(f"Error: Permission denied when writing to '{output_pdf}'.")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"An unexpected error occurred while saving the PDF: {e}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    finally:
+        merger.close()
+
+def main(args):
+    if len(args) < 3:
+        print("Usage: mergepdfs <output_pdf> <input_pdf1> <input_pdf2> ...")
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    output_pdf = args[0]
+    input_pdfs = args[1:]
+
+    merge_pdfs(output_pdf, input_pdfs)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main(sys.argv[1:])
+