NAME

       pdfbook - put the pages of PDF files into 2-up signatures

SYNOPSIS

       pdfbook [--short-edge] [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]

DESCRIPTION

       pdfbook  makes  2-up  versions of PDF files, with the pages ordered as signatures.  The default signature
       size is 4: to change this, use the option '--signature N', where N is a multiple of 4 (alternatively  use
       '--signature* N' for right-edge binding).

       The  default is to make pages suitable for long-edge binding.  For short-edge binding, use '--short-edge'
       as the first argument; this will only work if the LaTeX package 'everyshi' is installed.

       The default output page orientation is landscape.  To change this, use the '--no-landscape' option.

       By default, the option '--booklet true' is used (see the pdfpages manual for details).  To turn this off,
       just specify '--booklet false'.

       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.

       pdfbook  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.

       pdfbook  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  '-book'  applied  to  their  names  by
       default.  To change the suffix, use the '--suffix' option, for example

              pdfbook --suffix 'sig4' --batch myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf

       will result in files named 'myfile1-sig4.pdf' and 'myfile2-sig4.pdf'.

       pdfbook    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

       pdfbook 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).

AUTHOR

       pdfbook is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam package.

                                                  10 March 2010                                       pdfbook(1)