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)