#!/bin/sh ## ## pdfjam-pocketmod: A shell program to make an 8-page PDF document ## into an 8-up file with pages ordered and oriented for folding as ## a pocket-sized booklet, as described at http://repocketmod.com/ ## ## Author David Firth (http://go.warwick.ac.uk/dfirth) ## ## This is a simple wrapper for (three runs of) pdfjam, version 2.08 ## ## ## It's hard (?) to set up this particular script to read from /dev/stdin, ## so we'll just insist that the first argument is a file: ## E_USAGE=64 ## for a command line usage error for arg do case $arg in --batch) printf "pdfjam-pocketmod ERROR: the --batch option is not allowed\n" 1>&2 ; exit "$E_USAGE" ;; --no-tidy) n='--no-tidy' ;; --quiet | -q) q='-q' ;; --vanilla) v='--vanilla' ;; --checkfiles) c='--checkfiles' ;; *) ;; esac done ## sourceFile="$1" ; shift ; ## ## Some (very) minimal checking of the first argument: ## if test ! -f "$sourceFile" ; then printf "pdfjam-pocketmod ERROR: first argument must be a PDF file\n" ; exit $E_USAGE ; fi ## ## That's all the argument checking! ## pageSpec="1-8" ## the default page spec case ${1} in --* | "") ## no page spec was given ;; *) ## a page spec was given, so use it pageSpec="$1" ; shift ;; esac pdfjam $n $q $c $v -o /dev/stdout "$sourceFile" "$pageSpec" | pdfjam --angle 180 $n $q $v -o /dev/stdout /dev/stdin '1,8,7,6' | pdfjam --nup 4x2 --landscape --frame true "$sourceFile" '2-5' /dev/stdin "$@"