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NAME

6       pdfxup - n-up PDF pages with reduced margins
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SYNOPSIS

9       pdfxup [OPTIONS] [FILE]
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DESCRIPTION

12       pdfxup  creates a PDF document where each page is obtained by combining
13       several pages of a PDF file given as output. The important  feature  of
14       pdfxup,  compared  to similar programs, is that it tries to compute the
15       (global) bounding box of the input PDF file, in  order  to  remove  the
16       margins  and  to  keep  the  text only. Instead of having the font size
17       divided by 2 (for the case of 2-up output), in some case you may end up
18       with  almost  the same font size as in the original document (as is the
19       case for a default 'article' document produced by LaTeX).
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21       pdfxup uses ghostscript for computing the maximal bounding box of (some
22       of)  the  pages  of the document, and then uses pdflatex (with graphicx
23       package) in order to produce the new document.
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OPTIONS

26       pdfxup accepts numerous options. The most important ones are:
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28       -x n, --columns n
29              sets the number of columns in the output file (default 2);
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31       -y n, --rows n
32              sets the number of lines in the output file (default 1);
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34       -l (0|1), --landscape (0|1)
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37       -b (0|1|le|se), --booklet (0|1|le|se)
38              configure for printing as a booklet. '1' is equivalent to  'le',
39              which  assumes  that  two-sided  printing is in 'long-edge' mode
40              (you turn from one page to the next along the long edge  of  the
41              paper). 'se' is the 'short-edge' option;
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43       -o file, --output file
44              name of output file;
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46       -i     ask before overwriting output file;
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48       -fw d, --framewidth d
49              width of the frame around each page (default 0.4pt);
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51       -im d, --innermargins d
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54       -m d, --margins d
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57       -is d, --intspacess d
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60       -p a-b, --pages a-b
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64              only  consider  pages  a  to  b  of input document for computing
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67       -nobb a-b, --no-bb a-b
68              omit pages a to b of input document from computation of bounding
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71       -g (0|1), --get-bb (0|1)
72              only compute (and output) bounding box;
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74       -s x y W H, --set-bb x y W H
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77       -d, --debug
78              debug mode: keep intermediary files;
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80       -V [0-3], --verbose [0-3]
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83       -q, --quiet
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86       -v, --version
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89       -h, --help
90              print help message and exit.
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SEE ALSO

94       gs(1), pdflatex(1)
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BUGS

97       No known bugs.
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AUTHOR

100       Nicolas Markey (pdfxup@markey.fr)
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