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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script for converting a pdf to book format Post 302366334 by dr.house on Thursday 29th of October 2009 09:21:14 AM
Old 10-29-2009
I tried to reconstruct your problem and solution, respectively, at first attempt coming up with:

Code:
#! /bin/bash

if [ -f $1 ]
then
  TOTAL=$( pdfinfo $1 | grep 'Pages' | awk -F ' ' '{print $2}' )
else
  echo "Usage: sh book.sh [input file]"
  exit 1
fi

IDX=1
IDX_A=1
IDX_B=$TOTAL
while [ $IDX_A -lt $IDX_B ]
do
  if [ $(( $IDX_A % 2 )) -eq 0 ]
  then
    pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages $IDX_B,$IDX_A --outfile temp.$IDX.pdf > /dev/null 2>&1
  else
    pdfnup $1 --nup 2x1 --pages $IDX_A,$IDX_B --outfile temp.$IDX.pdf > /dev/null 2>&1
  fi
  IDX_A=$(( $IDX_A + 1 ))
  IDX_B=$(( $IDX_B - 1 ))
  IDX=$(( $IDX + 1 ))
done

pdftk temp.*.pdf cat output book.pdf > /dev/null 2>&1
rm temp.*.pdf
exit 0

# [game over]

Due to a lack of appropriate test files, however, this only works for even-numbered input files (!).
 

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