NAME
pdfbook - put the pages of PDF files into 2-up signatures
SYNOPSIS
pdfbook [--short-edge] [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC
[PAGESPEC]] ...]
DESCRIPTION
pdfbook makes 2-up versions of PDF files, with the pages ordered as
signatures. The default signature size is 4: to change this, use the
option ’--signature N’, where N is a multiple of 4 (alternatively use
’--signature* N’ for right-edge binding).
The default is to make pages suitable for long-edge binding. For
short-edge binding, use ’--short-edge’ as the first argument; this will
only work if the LaTeX package ’everyshi’ is installed.
The default output page orientation is landscape. To change this, use
the ’--no-landscape’ option.
If no source PDF file (’SRC’) is specified, input is from /dev/stdin.
If ’PAGESPEC’ is omitted, all pages are processed.
Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the
’--batch’ option is used, in which case they are processed separately.
pdfbook is a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front end to
many of the capabilities of the pdfpages package for pdflatex. A
working installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is
required.
pdfbook operates on one or more PDF files, and (either with the
’--batch’ option or with ’--outfile DIR’ where ’DIR’ is a directory)
the resulting files have the suffix ’-book’ applied to their names by
default. To change the suffix, use the ’--suffix’ option, for example
pdfbook --suffix ’sig4’ --batch myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf
will result in files named ’myfile1-sig4.pdf’ and ’myfile2-sig4.pdf’.
pdfbook is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose homepage is at
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam.
SETUP
See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
USAGE
For the other available options and site/user defaults, see the output
of
pdfjam --help
For further information and some examples see
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
LIMITATIONS AND BUGS
pdfbook does not work with encrypted PDF files, and does not preserve
hyperlinks.
Please report bugs! See the website at
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam .
LICENSE
PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.
SEE ALSO
pdfjam(1).
AUTHOR
pdfbook is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam
package.
10 March 2010 pdfbook(1)