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6 pdfnup - n-up the pages of pdf files
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9 pdfnup [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]
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12 pdfnup converts files in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to
13 "n-up" PDF files, that is, with multiple input pages per output page,
14 for more economical printing etc. The default processing is to 2-up
15 landscape output with no frame around pages, equivalent to using the
16 options '--nup 2x1 --landscape true --frame false'.
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18 If no source PDF file ('SRC') is specified, input is from /dev/stdin.
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21 Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the
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24 pdfnup operates on one or more PDF files, and (either with the
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26 the resulting files have the suffix '-nup' applied to their names by
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29 pdfnup --nup 2x2 --suffix '2x2' --batch myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf
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33 pdfnup is a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front end to
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38 pdfnup is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose homepage is at
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60 PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.
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66 pdfnup is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam
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