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- PSNUP(1) PSNUP(1)
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- NAME
- psnup - multiple pages per sheet
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- SYNOPSIS
- psnup [ -wwidth ] [ -hheight ] [ -ppaper ] [ -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 centime-
- ters or inches. The -p option can be used as an alterna-
- tive, to set the paper size to a3, a4, a5, b5, letter,
- legal, tabloid, statement, executive, folio, quarto or
- 10x14. The default paper size is letter. 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.
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- The -l option should be used for pages which are in land-
- scape 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 `thumb-
- nail' 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 omit-
- ted, 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 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 par-
- ticular use is in conjunction with psbook(1). For exam-
- ple, using groff to create a PostScript document and lpr
- as the UNIX print spooler a typical command line might
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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
- Copyright (C) Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995
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- SEE ALSO
- psbook(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), epsffit(1), psnup(1),
- psresize(1), psmerge(1), fixscribeps(1), getafm(1), fixdl-
- srps(1), fixfmps(1), fixmacps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixp-
- spps(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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