NAME

       psutils

SYNOPSIS

       psutils [OPTION...] [INFILE [OUTFILE]]

DESCRIPTION

       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

OPTIONS

       -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

COMMENTS

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

AUTHOR

       Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

psutils 3.3.8                                      2025-02-15                                         PSUTILS(1)