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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/support/pdfbook/README b/support/pdfbook/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8fba202328 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/pdfbook/README @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +PDFBOOK +======= + +Description +----------- + +Rearrange pages in a PDF file into signatures and (optionally) rescale +to fit 2 original pages on 1 physical one. Allows one to easily +convert pdf documents to booklet format, e.g. transform from A4 paper +to A5 pages on A4 paper, such that one can fold the pages and obtains +a small booklet. + + +Authors +------- + +Original version by Tigran Aivazian, based on the algorithm from +psutils/psbook.c, which was written by Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995. + +Modification and additions by: +Jaap Eldering <eldering at a-eskwadraat.nl> +Roman Buchert <roman.buchert at arcor.de> +Pierre Francois <pf at romanliturgy.org> + + +Copyright +--------- + +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as +published by the Free Software Foundation. + +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, +Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA + + +Installation +------------ + +On a *nix environment, installation should be as simple as running +'make pdfbook' in the directory containing the pdfbook.c source. + +Runtime-depends on LaTeX and the pdfpages package and pdfinfo. + + +Usage +----- + +Running pdfbook without parameters produces a short help. + +For simply transforming an A4 document to print in A5 booklet format, +use: 'pdfbook -2 <infile> <outfile>' + +Changelog +--------- + + * 16-09-2009, Jaap Eldering, added Makefile and patch by Jeroen + Leeuwestein adding quoting of filenames in system commands. + + * +/- 2007, modifications by Jaap Eldering, Roman Buchert, Pierre + Francois, adding support for autodetected and manual papersize + setting, reduction of pages for last book with signatures, and + debugging option. + + * June 2005, modified by Jaap Eldering <eldering at a-eskwadraat.nl>, + added option to generate booklet by placing 2x A5 pages on A4 paper. + + * Original version by Tigran Aivazian <tigran at aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> + based on the algorithm from psutils/psbook.c, which was written by + Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995. |