.TH PSPDFUTILS "1" "2024\-08\-19" "pspdfutils 3.3.5" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
pspdfutils
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pspdfutils
[OPTION...] -NUMBER [INFILE [OUTFILE]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B psnup
uses
.B pstops
to impose multiple logical pages on to each physical sheet of paper.
.PP
Paper sizes can be given either as a name (see
.BR paper(1) )
or as \fBwidth\fRx\fBheight\fR (see
.BR psutils (1)
for the available units).
Put multiple pages of a PostScript document on to one page.

.TP
\fB\-NUMBER\fR
number of pages to impose on each output page

.TP
\fBINFILE\fR
`\-' or no INFILE argument means standard input

.TP
\fBOUTFILE\fR
`\-' or no OUTFILE argument means standard output

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-p\fR \fI\,PAPER\/\fR, \fB\-\-paper\fR \fI\,PAPER\/\fR
output paper name or dimensions (WIDTHxHEIGHT)

.TP
\fB\-P\fR \fI\,INPAPER\/\fR, \fB\-\-inpaper\fR \fI\,INPAPER\/\fR
input paper name or dimensions (WIDTHxHEIGHT)

.TP
\fB\-m\fR \fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR, \fB\-\-margin\fR \fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR
width of margin around each output page
[default 0pt]; useful for thumbnail sheets,
as the original page margins will be shrunk

.TP
\fB\-b\fR \fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR, \fB\-\-border\fR \fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR
width of border around each input page

.TP
\fB\-d\fR \fI\,[DIMENSION]\/\fR, \fB\-\-draw\fR \fI\,[DIMENSION]\/\fR
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]

.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-rotatedleft\fR
input pages are rotated left 90 degrees

.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-rotatedright\fR
input pages are rotated right 90 degrees

.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-flip\fR
swap output pages' width and height

.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-transpose\fR
swap columns and rows (column\-major order)

.TP
\fB\-t\fR \fI\,NUMBER\/\fR, \fB\-\-tolerance\fR \fI\,NUMBER\/\fR
maximum wasted area in square pt [default: 100000]

.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
show program's version number and exit

.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
don't show progress

.SH COMMENTS
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.
.SH EXAMPLES
The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular
use is in conjunction with
.BR psbook (1).
For example, using groff to create a PostScript document and lpr as
the
.SM UNIX
print spooler a typical command line might look like this:
.sp
groff -Tps -ms \fIfile\fP | psbook | psnup -2 | lpr
.sp
where file is a 4 page document this command will result in a
two page document printing two pages of \fIfile\fP 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.

.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
.fi