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NAME

       bookletimposer - An utility to reorganize PDF pages

SYNOPSIS

       bookletimposer [options] [input-file]

       bookletimposer -a [options] input-file

DESCRIPTION

       bookletimposer is an utility to achieve some basic imposition on PDF documents, especially designed to work on booklets.

       It allows:

       o to transform linear documents to booklets;

       o to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for tracts for example);

       o to transform booklets to linear documents.

       It is a free software released under the GNU General Public License, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version.

OPTIONS

   --version
       show program's version number and exit.

   -h, --help
       show an help message and exit.

   -o OUTFILE, --output=OUTFILE
       set output PDF file to OUTFILE.

   -a, --no-gui
       automatic converstion (don't show the user interface).  In that mode, the input file must be defined.

   -i, --gui
       show the user interface (default).

   -b, --booklet
       produce a booklet out of a linear document (default).

   -l, --linearize
       produce a linear document out of a booklet.

   -n, --no-reorganisation
       don't reorganize (will only scale and assemble pages).

   -c, --copy-pages
       copy the same group of input pages on one output page.

   -p PAGES_PER_SHEET,
       --pages-per-sheet=PAGES_PER_SHEET

       number of pages per sheet, in the format HORIZONTALxVERTICAL, e.g.  2x1.

   -f OUTPUT_FORMAT,
       --format=OUTPUT_FORMAT

       output page format, e.g.  A4 or A3R.

   -k, --keep
       do not overwrite output file if it exists.

EXAMPLES

   bookletimposer
       Displays the GTK+ user interface.

   bookletimposer --no-gui --booklet --pages-per-sheet=2x1
       --output=out.pdf in.pdf

       Converts in.pdf into a booklet with two pages per sheet an saves the result as out.pdf.

   bookletimposer --no-gui --linearise --pages-per-sheet=2x1 in.pdf
       Converts  the  two-pages-per-sheet  booklet in.pdf into a page-by-page PDF.  As the output file name is not defined, it will default to in-
       conv.pdf.

SEE ALSO

       pdfshuffler(1)

       BookletImposer source code and documentation can be found on the web at <https://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/>

KNOWN ISSUES

       BookletImposer is under development, which means that for the moment, some things work, some others do not...  Thanks  to  report  bugs	to
       <kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org> if you find some!

AUTHORS

       Kjo Hansi Glaz <kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org>.

bookletimposer user manual					       2012							 BOOKLETIMPOSER(1)