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)