PSNUP
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NAME
psnup - uses pstops to merge multiple pages per sheet
SYNOPSIS
psnup
[
-q
]
[
-wwidth
]
[
-hheight
]
[
-ppaper
]
-l
]
[
-2 | -4 | -8 | -h
]
[
infile
] ]
DESCRIPTION
Psnup
is a script making the use of
pstops
easier.
It sets up standard width and height parameters and
Pstops
rearranges pages from a PostScript document, creating a new PostScript file.
The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring
Conventions.
Pstops
can be used to perform a large number of arbitrary re-arrangements of
Documents, including arranging for printing 2-up, 4-up, booklets, reversing,
selecting front or back sides of documents, scaling, etc.
The
-w
option gives the width, the default is (21cm),
-h
option gives the height, the default is (29.7cm),
and are normally specified in
cm
or
in
to convert
PostScript's points (1/72 of an inch)
to centimeters or inches.
The
-p
option can be used as an alternative, to set the paper size to
a3, a4, a5, letter
or
legal.
The
-b
option prevents any
bind
operators in the PostScript prolog from binding. This may be needed in cases
where complex multi-page re-arrangements are being done.
Pstops normally prints the page numbers of the pages re-arranged; the
-q
option suppresses this.
EXAMPLES
The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular
use is in conjunction with
psbook(1).
For example, using psroff to create a PostScript document and lpr as
the
UNIX
print spooler a typical command line might look like this:
psroff -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.
AUTHOR
Angus Duggan
Brian Colfer, University of California, San Francisco
brianc@labmed.ucsf.edu
SEE ALSO
psbook(1), pstops(1), psroff(1)
TRADEMARKS
PostScript
is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
BUGS
Pstops
cannot cope with documents longer than 5000 pages.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- EXAMPLES
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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- TRADEMARKS
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- BUGS
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