PSBOOK(1)

📦 version 61719, in fedora 43, fedora 44

omg hiii bestie, welcome to the PSBOOK(1) page from the General Commands Manual ✨💖

✨ NAME ✨

psbook — rearrange pages in a PostScript file into signatures. That's the whole main-character job, no cap. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

psbook [-q] [-ssignature] [infile [outfile]]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so psbook rearranges pages from a PostScript document into what it calls ``signatures'' — those folded-and-bound chunks for printing books or booklets — and it creates a new PostScript file. The input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions. periodt. 📚

Here's the tea on the options, bestie:

  • -s / -ssignature — selects the size of signature which will be used. The signature size is the number of sides which will be folded and bound together; the number given should be a multiple of four. The default is to use one signature for the whole file. Extra blank sides will be added if the file does not contain a multiple of four pages. 🦋
  • -q — suppresses printing page numbers. Normally psbook prints the page numbers of the pages rearranged; -q shuts that up. 🤫

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Angus J. C. Duggan. iconic. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

psutils(1) — go read that too, bestie. ✨

🌈 TRADEMARKS 🌈

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. 💙

💀 BUGS 💀

psbook does not accept all DSC comments. lowkey a limitation, highkey important if your file is extra fancy. 😭

signing off from source/version PSUtils, manual PSBOOK(1), and the date slot is empty in the original footer — bye bestie, stay iconic 💅✨

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