1pdfbook(1)                                                          pdfbook(1)
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NAME

6       pdfbook - put the pages of PDF files into 2-up signatures
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SYNOPSIS

9       pdfbook  [--short-edge]  [OPTION  [OPTION]  ...]  [SRC  [PAGESPEC] [SRC
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DESCRIPTION

13       pdfbook makes 2-up versions of PDF files, with  the  pages  ordered  as
14       signatures.   The  default signature size is 4: to change this, use the
15       option '--signature N', where N is a multiple of 4  (alternatively  use
16       '--signature* N' for right-edge binding).
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18       The  default  is  to  make  pages  suitable for long-edge binding.  For
19       short-edge binding, use '--short-edge' as the first argument; this will
20       only work if the LaTeX package 'everyshi' is installed.
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22       The  default output page orientation is landscape.  To change this, use
23       the '--no-landscape' option.
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25       By default, the option '--booklet true' is used (see the pdfpages  man‐
26       ual for details).  To turn this off, just specify '--booklet false'.
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28       If  no  source PDF file ('SRC') is specified, input is from /dev/stdin.
29       If 'PAGESPEC' is omitted, all pages are processed.
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31       Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the
32       '--batch' option is used, in which case they are processed separately.
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34       pdfbook  is  a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front end to
35       many of the capabilities of the pdfpages package for pdflatex.  A work‐
36       ing installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is required.
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38       pdfbook  operates  on  one  or  more  PDF  files,  and (either with the
39       '--batch' option or with '--outfile DIR' where 'DIR'  is  a  directory)
40       the  resulting  files have the suffix '-book' applied to their names by
41       default.  To change the suffix, use the '--suffix' option, for example
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43              pdfbook --suffix 'sig4' --batch myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf
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45       will result in files named 'myfile1-sig4.pdf' and 'myfile2-sig4.pdf'.
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47       pdfbook is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose homepage is  at
48       http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam.
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SETUP

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

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

63       pdfbook  does  not work with encrypted PDF files, and does not preserve
64       hyperlinks.
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66       Please report bugs! See the website at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdf‐
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LICENSE

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

73       pdfjam(1).
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AUTHOR

76       pdfbook  is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam
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82                                 10 March 2010                      pdfbook(1)
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