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+.TH PSNUP 1 "PSUtils Release 1 Patchlevel 17"
+.SH NAME
+psnup \- multiple pages per sheet
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B psnup
+[
+.B \-w\fIwidth\fR
+] [
+.B \-h\fIheight\fR
+] [
+.B \-p\fIpaper\fR
+] [
+.B \-W\fIwidth\fR
+] [
+.B \-H\fIheight\fR
+] [
+.B \-P\fIpaper\fR
+] [
+.B \-l
+] [
+.B \-r
+] [
+.B \-f
+] [
+.B \-c
+] [
+.B \-m\fImargin\fR
+] [
+.B \-b\fIborder\fR
+] [
+.B \-d\fIlwidth\fR
+] [
+.B \-s\fIscale\fR
+] [
+.B \-\fInup\fR
+] [
+.B \-q
+] [
+.I infile
+[
+.I outfile
+] ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Psnup
+puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper.
+The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring
+Conventions.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-w
+option gives the paper width, and the
+.I \-h
+option gives the paper height,
+normally specified in
+.B "cm"
+or
+.B "in"
+to convert
+PostScript's points (1/72 of an inch)
+to centimeters or inches.
+The
+.I \-p
+option can be used as an alternative, to set the paper size to
+.B a3, a4, a5, b5, letter, legal, tabloid, statement, executive, folio, quarto
+or
+.B 10x14.
+The default paper size is
+.B a4.
+The
+.I \-W, \-H,
+and
+.I \-P
+options set the input paper size, if it is different from the output
+size. This makes it easy to impose pages of one size on a different size of
+paper.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-l
+option should be used for pages which are in landscape orientation (rotated 90
+degrees anticlockwise). The
+.I \-r
+option should be used for pages which are in seascape orientation (rotated 90
+degrees clockwise), and the
+.I \-f
+option should be used for pages which have the width and height interchanged,
+but are not rotated.
+.PP
+.I Psnup
+normally uses `row-major' layout, where adjacent pages are placed in rows
+across the paper.
+The
+.I \-c
+option changes the order to `column-major', where successive pages are placed
+in columns down the paper.
+.PP
+A margin to leave around the whole page can be specified with the
+.I \-m
+option. This is useful for sheets of `thumbnail' pages, because the normal
+page margins are reduced by putting multiple pages on a single sheet.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-b
+option is used to specify an additional margin around each page on a sheet.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-d
+option draws a line around the border of each page, of the specified width.
+If the \fIlwidth\fR parameter is omitted, a default linewidth of 1 point is
+assumed. The linewidth is relative to the original page dimensions,
+\fIi.e.\fR it is scaled down with the rest of the page.
+.PP
+The scale chosen by
+.I psnup
+can be overridden with the
+.I \-s
+option. This is useful to merge pages which are already reduced.
+.PP
+The
+.I \-\fInup\fR
+option selects the number of logical pages to put on each sheet of paper. This
+can be any whole number;
+.I psnup
+tries to optimise the layout so that the minimum amount of space is wasted. If
+.I psnup
+cannot find a layout within its tolerance limit, it will abort with an error
+message. The alternative form
+.I \i \fInup\fR
+can also be used, for compatibility with other n-up programs.
+.PP
+.I Psnup
+normally prints the page numbers of the pages re-arranged; the
+.I \-q
+option suppresses this.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular
+use is in conjunction with
+.I psbook(1).
+For example, using groff to create a PostScript document and lpr as
+the
+.SM UNIX
+print spooler a typical command line might look like this:
+.sp
+groff -Tps -ms \fIfile\fP | psbook | psnup -2 | lpr
+.sp
+Where file is a 4 page document this command will result in a
+two page document printing two pages of \fIfile\fP per page and
+rearranges the page order to match the input pages 4 and 1
+on the first output page and
+pages 2 then 3 of the input document
+on the second output page.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Copyright (C) Angus J. C. Duggan 1991-1995
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+epsffit(1), psbook(1), psnup(1), psresize(1), psselect(1), pstops(1), extractres(1), fixdlsrps(1), fixfmps(1), fixpsditps(1), fixpspps(1), fixscribeps(1), fixtpps(1), fixwfwps(1), fixwpps(1), fixwwps(1), includeres(1), psmerge(1), getafm(1)
+.SH TRADEMARKS
+.B PostScript
+is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
+.SH BUGS
+.I Psnup
+does not accept all DSC comments.