NAME¶

bookletimposer - An utility to reorganize PDF pages

SYNOPSIS¶

bookletimposer [options][*input-file*] bookletimposer -a [options] input-file

DESCRIPTION¶

bookletimposer is an utility to achieve some basic imposition on PDF documents, especially designed to work on booklets. It allows:

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to transform linear documents to booklets;

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to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for tracts for example);

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to transform booklets to linear documents.

It is a free software released under the GNU General Public License, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version.

OPTIONS¶

--version¶

show program's version number and exit.

-h, --help¶

show an help message and exit.

-o OUTFILE, --output= OUTFILE¶

set output PDF file to OUTFILE.

-a, --no-gui¶

automatic converstion (don't show the user interface). In that mode, the input file must be defined.

-i, --gui¶

show the user interface (default).

-b, --booklet¶

produce a booklet out of a linear document (default).

-l, --linearize¶

produce a linear document out of a booklet.

-n, --no-reorganisation¶

don't reorganize (will only scale and assemble pages).

-c, --copy-pages¶

copy the same group of input pages on one output page.

-p PAGES_PER_SHEET,¶

--pages-per-sheet= PAGES_PER_SHEET number of pages per sheet, in the format HORIZONTALxVERTICAL, e.g. 2x1.

-f OUTPUT_FORMAT,¶

--format= OUTPUT_FORMAT output page format, e.g. A4 or A3R.

-k, --keep¶

do not overwrite output file if it exists.

EXAMPLES¶

bookletimposer¶

Displays the GTK+ user interface.

bookletimposer --no-gui --booklet --pages-per-sheet=2x1¶

--output=out.pdf in.pdf Converts in.pdf into a booklet with two pages per sheet an saves the result as out.pdf.

bookletimposer --no-gui --linearise --pages-per-sheet=2x1¶

in.pdf Converts the two-pages-per-sheet booklet in.pdf into a page-by-page PDF. As the output file name is not defined, it will default to in-conv.pdf.

SEE ALSO¶

pdfshuffler(1) BookletImposer source code and documentation can be found on the web at <https://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/>

KNOWN ISSUES¶

BookletImposer is under development, which means that for the moment, some things work, some others do not... Thanks to report bugs to <kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org> if you find some!

AUTHORS¶

Kjö Hansi Glaz <kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org>.