DVIBOOK(1)

🎀 DVIBOOK(1) · General Commands Manual 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the whole point of dvibook is rearranging pages from a DVI file into signatures 📖. Basically it shuffles your pages so you can print a book or booklet and it folds up perfectly 💅

dvibook [ -q ] [ -s<num> ] [ -r ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie, dvibook takes the pages from a DVI file made by TeX and reorders them into "signatures" for printing books or booklets. The result is a brand new DVI file that works with any of the TeX conversion programs 🦋

The -s option picks how big each signature is. A signature is the number of sides that get folded and bound together, so the number you give should be a multiple of four ✨ If you don't use it, the whole file becomes one signature. And if your file doesn't have a multiple of four pages, dvibook adds extra blank sides so everything lines up 🫶

By default you get left-hand side binding signatures. Use -r to switch to right-hand side binding signatures instead. This might be useful for pTeX vertical writing (tate-kumi) documents 🌸

dvibook normally prints the page numbers of the pages it rearranges. If you don't want that noise, -q shuts it up 🤫

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -q — no page-number printing while it's rearranging 🙈
• -s<num> — sets the signature size, which is how many sides get folded and bound together. Make it a multiple of four 💅
• -r — flips things to right-hand side binding signatures 🦋

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Angus Duggan, from dviselect(1), by Chris Torek, University of Maryland. Currently maintained as part of TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dvitodvi(1), dviconcat(1), dviselect(1), latex(1), tex(1), and the MC-TeX User's Guide 📚

💀 BUGS 💀

not me admitting dvibook does not adjust the parameters in the postamble 😭

Those postamble values are normally only used to size certain structures in the output conversion programs. They never need to be adjusted upward, so in practice this hasn't been a problem 🫶

Okay bestie, that's the whole tea ☕✨ Source: TeX Live, dated 8 September 2020, page DVIBOOK(1). Stay iconic 💖🎀🦋