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:

• to transform linear documents to booklets;
• to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for handouts for example);
• 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 conversion (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 should be quite stable. Thanks to report bugs to kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org if you find some!