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diff --git a/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/psnup.1 b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/psnup.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..64c23f80 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/psnup.1 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.13. +.TH PSNUP "1" "October 2021" "psnup 2.07" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +psnup - put multiple pages of a PostScript document on to one page +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B psnup +[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR...] \fI\,-NUP \/\fR[\fI\,INFILE \/\fR[\fI\,OUTFILE\/\fR]] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Put multiple pages of a PostScript document on to one page. +.TP +\fB\-NUMBER\fR +number of pages to impose on each output page +.TP +\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-paper\fR=\fI\,PAPER\/\fR +output paper name or dimensions +.TP +\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-inpaper\fR=\fI\,PAPER\/\fR +input paper name or dimensions +.TP +\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-margin\fR=\fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR +width of margin around each output page +[default 0pt]; useful for thumbnail sheets, +as the original page margins will be shrunk +.TP +\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-border\fR=\fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR +width of border around each input page +.TP +\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-draw\fR[=\fI\,DIMENSION\/\fR] +draw a line of given width around each page +[relative to input page size; argument defaults to +1pt; default is no line] +.TP +\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-rotatedleft\fR +input pages are rotated left 90 degrees +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-rotatedright\fR +input pages are rotated right 90 degrees +.TP +\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-flip\fR +swap output pages' width and height +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-transpose\fR +swap columns and rows (column\-major order) +.TP +\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tolerance\fR=\fI\,NUMBER\/\fR +maximum wasted area in square pt [default: 100,000] +.TP +\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR +don't show page numbers being output +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +display version information and exit +.PP +psnup aborts with an error if it cannot arrange the input pages so as to +waste less than the given tolerance. +.PP +The output paper size defaults to the input paper size; if that is not given, +the default given by the `paper' command is used. +.PP +The input paper size defaults to the output paper size. +.PP +In row\-major order (the default), adjacent pages are placed in rows across +the paper; in column\-major order, they are placed in columns down the page. +.PP +.B Psnup +uses +.B Pstops +to impose multiple logical pages on to each physical sheet of paper. +.PP +Paper sizes can be given either as a name (see +.BR paper(1) ) +or as \fBwidth\fRx\fBheight\fR (see +.BR psutils (1) +for the available units). + +.SS "Exit status:" +.TP +0 +if OK, +.TP +1 +if arguments or options are incorrect, or there is some other problem +starting up, +.TP +2 +if there is some problem during processing, typically an error reading or +writing an input or output file. +.SH EXAMPLES +The potential use of this utility is varied but one particular +use is in conjunction with +.BR 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 +Written by Angus J. C. Duggan and Reuben Thomas. +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co Reuben Thomas 2016\-2021. +Released under the GPL version 3, or (at your option) any later version. +.SH TRADEMARKS +.B PostScript +is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR psutils (1), +.BR paper (1) |