pdfjam-slides6up(1)pdfjam-slides6up(1)NAMEpdfjam-slides6up - put presentation slides onto 6-up pages
SYNOPSISpdfjam-slides6up [--pagenumbering SWITCH] [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC
[PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]
DESCRIPTIONpdfjam-slides6up converts PDF files whose pages are presentation slides
(with 4:3 aspect ratio) into 6-up versions suitable for making a hand‐
out (for example). By default, the 6-up pages do not themselves have
page numbers.
To put page numbers on the output pages, use either '--pagenumbering
true' or, for example, '--pagenumbering 3.0cm' to place the page num‐
bers a bit lower on the page than the default position. The value of
'SWITCH' must be either 'true', 'false' or a dimension that can be used
by LateX. (To be precise, it's the value of the 'footskip' dimension in
LaTeX; by default, pdfjam-slides6up sets that as 2.7cm, which works
pretty well in conjunction with both '--paper a4paper' and '--paper
letterpaper'.)
If no source PDF file ('SRC') is specified, input is from /dev/stdin.
If 'PAGESPEC' is omitted, all pages are processed.
Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the
'--batch' option is used, in which case they are processed separately.
pdfjam-slides6up is a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front
end to many of the capabilities of the pdfpages package for pdflatex.
A working installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is
required.
pdfjam-slides6up operates on one or more PDF files, and (either with
the '--batch' option or with '--outfile DIR' where 'DIR' is a direc‐
tory) the resulting files have the suffix '-6up' applied to their names
by default. To change the suffix, use the '--suffix' option, for exam‐
ple
pdfjam-slides6up--suffix '2x3' --batch myslides1.pdf mys‐
lides2.pdf
will result in files named 'myslides1-2x3.pdf' and 'myslides2-2x3.pdf'.
By default a narrow line frame is printed around every slide. This can
be turned off if required by using the option '--frame false'.
pdfjam-slides6up is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose home‐
page is at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam .
SETUP
See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
USAGE
For the other available options and site/user defaults, see the output
of
pdfjam --help
For further information and some examples see http://go.war‐
wick.ac.uk/pdfjam .
LIMITATIONS AND BUGSpdfjam-slides6up does not work with encrypted PDF files, and does not
preserve hyperlinks.
Please report bugs! See the website at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdf‐
jam .
LICENSE
PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.
SEE ALSOpdfjam(1)pdfjam-slides3up(1) .
AUTHORpdfjam-slides6up is written and maintained by David Firth as part of
the PDFjam package.
10 March 2010 pdfjam-slides6up(1)
