BOOKLETIMPOSER(1)

💖 BOOKLETIMPOSER — bookletimposer(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're gonna talk about bookletimposer, an utility to reorganize PDF pages, and honestly? she's that girl. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bookletimposer — an utility to reorganize PDF pages 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bookletimposer [options] [input-file]

bookletimposer -a [options] input-file

no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so bookletimposer is an utility to achieve some basic imposition on PDF documents, and she was especially designed to work on booklets. it's giving "small tool, huge main character energy". 👑

here's what she lets you do, fr fr:

• transform linear documents to booklets;
• reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for handouts for example);
• transform booklets to linear documents.

and she's a free software released under the GNU General Public License, either version 3 or (at your option) any later version. we love a generous queen. 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version — show program's version number and exit. quick lil flex, then she's gone. ✨
• -h, --help — show an help message and exit. bestie will explain herself. 🫶
• -o OUTFILE, --output=OUTFILE — set output PDF file to OUTFILE. tell her where to put the goods. 📁
• -a, --no-gui — automatic conversion (don't show the user interface). lowkey the shy mode. ⚠️ heads up though: in that mode, the input file must be defined. no input, no party.
• -i, --gui — show the user interface (default). this is the one she shows up in by default, periodt. 🎀
• -b, --booklet — produce a booklet out of a linear document (default). the classic. the icon. 🌟
• -l, --linearize — produce a linear document out of a booklet. un-booklet-ing, we love a reverse. 🦋
• -n, --no-reorganisation — don't reorganize (will only scale and assemble pages). she just scales and assembles, no reshuffling. keep it simple. 💜
• -c, --copy-pages — copy the same group of input pages on one output page. same pages, one sheet, copy-paste realness. 📄
• -p PAGES_PER_SHEET, --pages-per-sheet=PAGES_PER_SHEET — number of pages per sheet, in the format HORIZONTALxVERTICAL, e.g. 2x1. yes bestie, that's an x between the numbers, iykyk. 🔢
• -f OUTPUT_FORMAT, --format=OUTPUT_FORMAT — output page format, e.g. A4 or A3R. pick your size, pick your drama. 📐
• -k, --keep — do not overwrite output file if it exists. she's respectful like that. 🙈

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

1. this one just vibes:

bookletimposer

Displays the GTK+ user interface. ✨

2. the full glow-up:

bookletimposer –no-gui –booklet –pages-per-sheet=2x1 –output=out.pdf in.pdf

Converts in.pdf into a booklet with two pages per sheet an saves the result as out.pdf. 🔥

3. the reverse uno:

bookletimposer –no-gui –linearise –pages-per-sheet=2x1 in.pdf

Converts the two-pages-per-sheet booklet in.pdf into a page-by-page PDF. As the output file name is not defined, it will default to in-conv.pdf. (she names it for you, so thoughtful 💖)

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

pdfshuffler(1)

BookletImposer source code and documentation can be found on the web at

https://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/

go check her out, she's iconic. 🌐

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💀 KNOWN ISSUES 💀

BookletImposer should be quite stable. Thanks to report bugs to kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org if you find some! not me asking you to snitch on her bugs, but like, do it, it helps. 🐛

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Kjö Hansi Glaz kjo@a4nancy.net.eu.org

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🧚 SIGN-OFF 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was the bookletimposer user manual, dated 2019, and yeah, the header and footer say BOOKLETIMPOSER(1) on both ends because she's symmetrical like that. 💖✨🎀 stay slay, go impose some PDFs. 🦋🌸💅