NUP(1)

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✨ NUP(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for nup — it's giving "print multiple pages per sheet" and honestly? obsessed 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

nup — multiple pages per sheet with dvi2ps 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nup [ [ -p paper ] [ -2 ] [ -4 ] [ -8 ] [ -l ] [ -n ] ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, real talk: this manual page is just a lil baby overview of the nup command, ngl. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution specifically because the original command straight up didn't have a manual page 😭 — so we made one, you're welcome.

nup puts multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet of paper using dvi2ps. And heads up bestie, the input PostScript file should be of dvi2ps — that's the vibe, that's the whole thing ✨

  • -p paper — sets the paper size, and the sizes you can use are the ones dvi2ps has available 📄
  • -2 — puts 2 logical pages on each sheet of paper 👯
  • -4 — puts 4 logical pages on each sheet of paper 🍀
  • -8 — puts 8 logical pages on each sheet of paper 🎱
  • -l — surrounds a page with a frame 🖼️
  • -n — does not shrink each logical page (no zoomies, no squishing) 🙅‍♀️

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

to print 2 pages in a sheet:

dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -2 | lpr

to print 8 pages in a B4 paper:

dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -8 -p b4 | lpr

to print 4 pages in a letter size paper with frame:

dvi2ps foo.dvi | nup -4 -p letter -l | lpr

to print 2 B5 size pages in a B4 paper:

dvi2ps -o b5 foo.dvi | nup -2 -n -p b4  | lpr

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

dvi2ps(1) — go read that one too, iykyk 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🫶 — this was NUP(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yeah, the footer just says NUP(1) again, iconic of it honestly 👑💖

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