1pdfjam-slides3up(1)                                        pdfjam-slides3up(1)
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NAME

6       pdfjam-slides3up - put presentation slides onto 3-up pages
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SYNOPSIS

9       pdfjam-slides3up  [--pagenumbering  SWITCH]  [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC
10       [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]
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DESCRIPTION

13       pdfjam-slides3up converts PDF files whose pages are presentation slides
14       (with  4:3 aspect ratio) into 3-up versions suitable for making a hand‐
15       out with space for handwritten side notes (for example).   By  default,
16       the 3-up pages do not themselves have page numbers.
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18       To  put  page  numbers on the output pages, use either '--pagenumbering
19       true' or, for example, '--pagenumbering 3.4cm' to place the  page  num‐
20       bers  a  bit lower on the page than the default position.  The value of
21       'SWITCH' must be either 'true', 'false' or a dimension that can be used
22       by LateX. (To be precise, it's the value of the 'footskip' dimension in
23       LaTeX; by default, pdfjam-slides3up sets that  as  3.1cm,  which  works
24       pretty  well  in  conjunction  with both '--paper a4paper' and '--paper
25       letterpaper'.)
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27       If no source PDF file ('SRC') is specified, input is  from  /dev/stdin.
28       If 'PAGESPEC' is omitted, all pages are processed.
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30       Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the
31       '--batch' option is used, in which case they are processed separately.
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33       pdfjam-slides3up is a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front
34       end  to  many of the capabilities of the pdfpages package for pdflatex.
35       A working installation of  pdflatex,  with  the  pdfpages  package,  is
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38       pdfjam-slides3up  operates  on  one or more PDF files, and (either with
39       the '--batch' option or with '--outfile DIR' where 'DIR'  is  a  direc‐
40       tory) the resulting files have the suffix '-3up' applied to their names
41       by default.  To change the suffix, use the '--suffix' option, for exam‐
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44              pdfjam-slides3up   --suffix  '1x3'  --batch  myslides1.pdf  mys‐
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47       will result in files named 'myslides1-1x3.pdf' and 'myslides2-1x3.pdf'.
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49       By default a narrow line frame is printed around every slide.  This can
50       be turned off if required by using the option '--frame false'.
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52       pdfjam-slides3up  is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose home‐
53       page is at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam .
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SETUP

56       See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
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USAGE

59       For the other available options and site /user defaults, see the output
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64       For   further   information   and   some  examples  see  http://go.war‐
65       wick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
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LIMITATIONS AND BUGS

68       pdfjam-slides3up does not work with encrypted PDF files, and  does  not
69       preserve hyperlinks.
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71       Please report bugs! See the website at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdf‐
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LICENSE

75       PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.
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SEE ALSO

78       pdfjam(1) pdfjam-slides6up(1) .
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AUTHOR

81       pdfjam-slides3up is written and maintained by David Firth  as  part  of
82       the PDFjam package.
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87                                 10 March 2010             pdfjam-slides3up(1)
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