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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script for converting a pdf to book format: an update Post 302460465 by aldebrn on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 09:37:30 PM
Old 10-06-2010
Well I feel sheepish. PDFjam ships with pdfbook, which solves exactly this problem and better. Yay!

As I can't post URLs, search for:
PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to much of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX.
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pdfbook which arranges pages into 2-up "signatures" (like psbook does for PostScript files), suitable for binding into a book. (Many people have suggested that this would be useful - I hope it is!)
 

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xfig-pdf-viewer

XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)						Debian Users Manual						XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       xfig-pdf-viewer - view a PDF document using a PDF browser under X11

SYNOPSIS

       xfig-pdf-viewer file.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       xfig-pdf-viewer is a little shell script, which tries to find out which PDF viewers you have installed on your system and then starts them.
       xfig-pdf-viewer tries the following PDF viewers with descending priority:

       -  xpdf(1)

       -  kpdf(1)

       -  evince(1)

       -  acroread(1)

       -  gpdf(1)

       -  gv(1)

       -  gnome-gv(1)

       -  kghostview(1)

       -  ghostview(1)

       If the environment variable PDFVIEWER is set, this is used with highest priority.

ENVIRONMENT

       PDFVIEWER
	      you can define your favorite browser with this variable, it overrides the priority of the above mentioned viewers.

AUTHOR

       Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>

SEE ALSO

       xpdf(1), kpdf(1), evince(1), acroread(1), gpdf(1), gv(1), gnome-gv(1), kghostview(1), ghostview(1)

Debian Project							     JULY 2006							XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)
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