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NAME
psnup - multiple pages per sheet
SYNOPSIS
psnup [ -wwidth ] [ -hheight ] [ -ppaper ] [ -Wwidth ] [ -Hheight ] [
-Ppaper ] [ -l ] [ -r ] [ -f ] [ -c ] [ -mmargin ] [ -bborder ] [
-dlwidth ] [ -sscale ] [ -nup ] [ -q ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Psnup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper.
The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring
Conventions.
The -w option gives the paper width, and the -h option gives the paper
height, normally specified in cm or in to convert PostScript's points
(1/72 of an inch) to centimeters or inches. The -p option can be used
as an alternative, to set the paper size to a3, a4, a5, b5, letter,
legal, tabloid, statement, executive, folio, quarto, 10x14 or _glibc,
where latter one means the format of the current locale. The default
paper size is _glibc. The -W, -H, and -P options set the input paper
size, if it is different from the output size. This makes it easy to
impose pages of one size on a different size of paper.
The -l option should be used for pages which are in landscape orienta-
tion (rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise). The -r option should be used
for pages which are in seascape orientation (rotated 90 degrees clock-
wise), and the -f option should be used for pages which have the width
and height interchanged, but are not rotated.
Psnup normally uses 'row-major' layout, where adjacent pages are
placed in rows across the paper. The -c option changes the order to
'column-major', where successive pages are placed in columns down the
paper.
A margin to leave around the whole page can be specified with the -m
option. This is useful for sheets of 'thumbnail' pages, because the
normal page margins are reduced by putting multiple pages on a single
sheet.
The -b option is used to specify an additional margin around each page
on a sheet.
The -d option draws a line around the border of each page, of the
specified width. If the lwidth parameter is omitted, a default
linewidth of 1 point is assumed. The linewidth is relative to the
original page dimensions, i.e. it is scaled down with the rest of the
page.
The scale chosen by psnup can be overridden with the -s option. This
is useful to merge pages which are already reduced.
The -nup option selects the number of logical pages to put on each
sheet of paper. This can be any whole number; psnup tries to optimise
the layout so that the minimum amount of space is wasted. If psnup
cannot find a layout within its tolerance limit, it will abort with an
error message. The alternative form i nup can also be used, for com-
patibility with other n-up programs.
Psnup normally prints the page numbers of the pages re-arranged; the
-q option suppresses this.
EXAMPLES
The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular use is
in conjunction with psbook(1). For example, using groff to create a
PostScript document and lpr as the UNIX print spooler a typical com-
mand line might look like this:
groff -Tps -ms file | psbook | psnup -2 | lpr
Where file is a 4 page document this command will result in a two page
document printing two pages of file per page and rearranges the page
order to match the input pages 4 and 1 on the first output page and
pages 2 then 3 of the input document on the second output page.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LC_ALL, LC_PAPER
These variables are specifying the papertype when used paper is
_glibc. For details see the locale(7) manpage.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995
SEE ALSO
psbook(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1), psresize(1),
psmerge(1), fixscribeps(1), getafm(1), fixdlsrps(1), fixfmps(1), fix-
macps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixpspps(1), fixtpps(1), fixwfwps(1), fixw-
pps(1), fixwwps(1), extractres(1), includeres(1)
TRADEMARKS
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
BUGS
Psnup does not accept all DSC comments.
PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 17 PSNUP(1)
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