NAME

       pdfjam-slides3up - put presentation slides onto 3-up pages

SYNOPSIS

       pdfjam-slides3up  [--pagenumbering  SWITCH]  [OPTION  [OPTION]  ...]  [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC
       [PAGESPEC]] ...]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfjam-slides3up converts PDF files whose pages are presentation slides (with  4:3  aspect
       ratio)  into  3-up  versions suitable for making a handout with space for handwritten side
       notes (for example).  By default, the 3-up pages do not themselves have page numbers.

       To put page numbers on the  output  pages,  use  either  '--pagenumbering  true'  or,  for
       example,  '--pagenumbering  3.4cm'  to place the page numbers a bit lower on the page than
       the default position.  The value of 'SWITCH' must be either 'true', 'false' or a dimension
       that  can  be used by LateX. (To be precise, it's the value of the 'footskip' dimension in
       LaTeX; by default, pdfjam-slides3up sets  that  as  3.1cm,  which  works  pretty  well  in
       conjunction with both '--paper a4paper' and '--paper letterpaper'.)

       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.

       pdfjam-slides3up 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.

       pdfjam-slides3up  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
       '-3up'  applied  to  their  names  by  default.   To change the suffix, use the '--suffix'
       option, for example

              pdfjam-slides3up --suffix '1x3' --batch myslides1.pdf myslides2.pdf

       will result in files named 'myslides1-1x3.pdf' and 'myslides2-1x3.pdf'.

       By default a narrow line frame is printed around every slide.  This can be turned  off  if
       required by using the option '--frame false'.

       pdfjam-slides3up  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

       pdfjam-slides3up 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) pdfjam-slides6up(1) .

AUTHOR

       pdfjam-slides3up is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam package.

                                          10 March 2010                       pdfjam-slides3up(1)