NAME

       pdfxup - n-up tool with reduced margins

SYNOPSIS

       pdfxup [OPTIONS] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfxup  creates a PDF document where each page is obtained by combining several pages of a
       PDF file given as output. The important feature of pdfxup, compared to  similar  programs,
       is  that  it tries to compute the (global) bounding box of the input PDF file, in order to
       remove the margins and to keep the text only. Instead of having the font size divided by 2
       (for  the case of 2-up output), in some case you may end up with almost the same font size
       as in the original document (as is the case for a default 'article' document  produced  by
       LaTeX).

       pdfxup  uses  ghostscript for computing the maximal bounding box of (some of) the pages of
       the document, and then uses pdflatex (with graphicx package) in order to produce  the  new
       document.

OPTIONS

       pdfxup accepts numerous options. The most important ones are:

       -x n, --columns n
              sets the number of columns in the output file (default 2);

       -y n, --rows n
              sets the number of lines in the output file (default 1);

       -l, --landscape
              sets orientation of paper (of final document) landscape;

       -b (le|se), --booklet (le|se)
              configure for printing as a booklet. Value 'le' (which is the default value when -b
              is used with no argument) means that two-sided printing is in 'long-edge' mode (you
              turn  from  one  page  to  the  next along the long edge of the paper). 'se' is the
              'short-edge' option.

       -c, --clip
              clip pages to the computed bounding box. By default, content is not clipped,  which
              may result in overlap of neighbouring pages. With this option, anything outside the
              bounding box will not be displayed.

       -o file, --output file
              name of output file;

       -i     ask before overwriting output file;

       -fw d, --framewidth d
              width of the frame around each page (default 0.4pt). Set to 0pt to have no frame at
              all;

       -im d, --innermargins d
              inner margin between frame and page (default 5pt);

       -m d, --margins d
              margin of pages of the new document (default 5pt);

       -is d, --intspaces d
              space between different pages (default 1pt);

       -p list, --pages list
              only consider sublist of pages of input document. List is a comma-separated list of
              pages or ranges pages of the form a-b; a can be omitted to start from  first  page,
              and  b  can  be  omitted  to  end at the last page. Therefore, "-p -" (which is the
              default) includes all pages. Also allows modulo, so that  "-p  0%2"  would  include
              only even-numbered pages.

       -bb list, --bb list
              only consider sublist of pages of input document for computing bounding box;

       -nobb list, --no-bb list
              omit list of pages of input document from computation of bounding box;

       -g, --get-bb
              only compute (and output) bounding box;

       -s x y W H, --set-bb x y W H
              set the bounding box to the given values;

       -w file, --watermark file
              use file as background watermark. file can be any format accepted by pdflatex (e.g.
              png or pdf). If file is a multipage PDF file, page n of the watermark file is  used
              with  page n of the input file, and the last page of the watermark file is repeated
              if the input file has more pages;

       -wp p, --watermark-period p
              repeat the last p pages of the watermark file instead of only the last one;

       -d, --debug
              debug mode: keep intermediary files;

       -V [0-3], --verbose [0-3]
              select verbosity (default: 1);

       -q, --quiet
              run quietly (equiv. '-V=0');

       -v, --version
              print version number and exit;

       -h, --help
              print help message and exit.

EXAMPLES

       # pdfxup file.pdf
              produces 2-up pdf file from file.pdf

       # pdfxup -bb 1-4 file.pdf
              same behaviour, but computes the bounding box only using the first  4  pages  (this
              saves time when processing long documents)

       # pdfxup -b -o booklet.pdf file.pdf
              same behaviour, but creates a booklet (as booklet.pdf)

       # pdfxup -kbb -x1 -y2 -l0 beamer-frames.pdf
              arranges 2 beamer frames per page (not reducing margins)

       # pdfxup -kbb -x2 -y2 -l beamer-frames.pdf:1-12,15-19
              arranges  4  beamer frames per page (not reducing margins), including only frames 1
              to 12 and 15 to 19.

SEE ALSO

       gs(1), pdflatex(1)

AUTHOR

       Nicolas Markey (pdfxup@markey.fr)