PSBOOK
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2021
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NAME
psbook - rearrange pages in a PostScript document into signatures
SYNOPSIS
psbook
[
,OPTION/...] [
,INFILE /[
,OUTFILE/]]
DESCRIPTION
Rearrange pages in a PostScript document into signatures.
- -s, --signature=,N/
-
number of pages per signature;
0 = all pages in one signature [default];
1 = one page per signature;
otherwise, a multiple of 4
- -q, --quiet
-
don't show page numbers being output
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
display version information and exit
Psbook
uses
Pstops
to rearrange pages from a PostScript document into 'signatures' for
printing books or booklets, creating a new PostScript file.
The signature size is the number of sides which will be folded and bound
together; the number given should be a multiple of four.
Extra blank sides will be added if the file does not contain a multiple of
four pages.
Exit status:
- 0
-
if OK,
- 1
-
if arguments or options are incorrect, or there is some other problem
starting up,
- 2
-
if there is some problem during processing, typically an error reading or
writing an input or output file.
AUTHOR
Written by Angus J. C. Duggan and Reuben Thomas.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © Reuben Thomas 2016-2021.
Released under the GPL version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
TRADEMARKS
PostScript
is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
SEE ALSO
psutils(1),
paper(1)