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pspdfutils

pspdfutils [OPTION...] -NUMBER [INFILE [OUTFILE]]

psnup uses pstops to impose multiple logical pages on to each physical sheet of paper.

Paper sizes can be given either as a name (see paper(1)) or as widthxheight (see psutils(1) for the available units). Put multiple pages of a PostScript document on to one page.

number of pages to impose on each output page
`-' or no INFILE argument means standard input
`-' or no OUTFILE argument means standard output

output paper name or dimensions (WIDTHxHEIGHT)
input paper name or dimensions (WIDTHxHEIGHT)
width of margin around each output page [default 0pt]; useful for thumbnail sheets, as the original page margins will be shrunk
width of border around each input page
draw a line of given width (relative to original page) around each page [argument defaults to 1pt; default is no line; width is fixed for PDF]
input pages are rotated left 90 degrees
input pages are rotated right 90 degrees
swap output pages' width and height
swap columns and rows (column-major order)
maximum wasted area in square pt [default: 100000]
show program's version number and exit
don't show progress

psnup aborts with an error if it cannot arrange the input pages so as to waste less than the given tolerance.

The output page size defaults to the input page size; if none is specified in the document or on the command line, the default given by the `paper' command is used.

The input page size defaults to the output page size.

In row-major order (the default), adjacent pages are placed in rows across the paper; in column-major order, they are placed in columns down the page.

The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular use is in conjunction with psbook(1). For example, using groff to create a PostScript document and lpr as the UNIX print spooler a typical command line might look like this:

groff -Tps -ms file | psbook | psnup -2 | lpr

where file is a 4 page document this command will result in a two page document printing two pages of file per page and rearranges the page order to match the input pages 4 and 1 on the first output page and pages 2 then 3 of the input document on the second output page.

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
2024-03-07 pspdfutils 3.3.2