psbook - Man Page

psbook [OPTION...] [INFILE [OUTFILE]]

psbook uses pstops to rearrange pages from a PDF or PostScript document into ‘signatures’ for printing books or booklets, creating a new file. A ‘signature’, often called a ‘section’ in bookbinding, is a series of sheets that are folded together to be stitched into the book's binding. Each sheet has two pages per side; the number of pages in a signature must therefore be a multiple of four. Extra blank sides will be added if the file does not contain a multiple of four pages.

The output should be printed 2-up (this can be achieved with psnup(1)) and duplex, as for short-edge binding. Alternatively, the output of psnup can be passed through the following command:

pstops '2:0(0,0),1U(1w,1h)'

to rotate the verso page upside-down, and the result can be printed duplex as for long-edge binding. Rearrange pages in a PDF or PostScript document into signatures.

INFILE

`-' or no INFILE argument means standard input

OUTFILE

`-' or no OUTFILE argument means standard output

-s SIGNATURE, --signature SIGNATURE

number of pages per signature; 0 = all pages in one signature [default]; 1 = do not rearrange the pages; otherwise, a multiple of 4

-v,  --version

show program's version number and exit

-q,  --quiet

don't show progress

PAGES is a comma-separated list of pages and page ranges; see pstops(1) for more details.

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

psnup(1), psutils(1), tl-psnup(1), tl-psutils(1).