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- PSNUP(1) UNIX System V (PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 13) PSNUP(1)
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- NAME
- psnup - multiple pages per sheet
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- SYNOPSIS
- psnup [ -wwidth ] [ -hheight ] [ -ppaper ] [ -l ] [ -r ] [
- -f ] [ -c ] [ -mmargin ] [ -bborder ] [ -dlwidth ] [ -sscale
- ] [ -nup ] [ -q ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Psnup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet
- of paper. The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe
- Document Structuring Conventions.
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- 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, or 10x14.
- The default paper size is a4.
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- The -l option should be used for pages which are in
- landscape orientation (rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise).
- The -r option should be used for pages which are in seascape
- orientation (rotated 90 degrees clockwise), and the -f
- option should be used for pages which have the width and
- height interchanged, but are not rotated.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The -b option is used to specify an additional margin around
- each page on a sheet.
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- 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.
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- The scale chosen by psnup can be overridden with the -s
- option. This is useful to merge pages which are already
- reduced.
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- The -nup option selects the number of logical pages to put
- on each sheet of paper. This can be any whole number; psnup
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- PSNUP(1) UNIX System V (PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 13) PSNUP(1)
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- 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 compatibility
- with other n-up programs.
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- Psnup normally prints the page numbers of the pages re-
- arranged; the -q option suppresses this.
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- 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 command line might look
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- groff -Tps -ms file | psbook | psnup -2 | lpr
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- 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.
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- AUTHOR
- Angus Duggan
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- SEE ALSO
- psbook(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1),
- psresize(1), getafm(1), fixdlsrps(1), fixfmps(1),
- fixmacps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixpspps(1), fixtpps(1),
- fixwfwps(1), fixwpps(1), fixwwps(1), extractres(1),
- includeres(1)
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- TRADEMARKS
- PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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- BUGS
- Psnup does not accept all DSC comments.
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