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pdfjam(1)

NAME

   pdfjam - A shell script for manipulating PDF files

SYNOPSIS

   pdfjam [OPTION [OPTION] ...] [SRC [PAGESPEC] [SRC [PAGESPEC]] ...]

DESCRIPTION

   pdfjam  provides  a  front  end  to most capabilities of the "pdfpages"
   package (by Andreas Matthias) of pdflatex.  Detailed information can be
   found via "pdfjam --help", and also in the web page mentioned below .

   A  working  installation  of  pdflatex,  with  the pdfpages package, is
   required.

   The pdfjam script is distributed as  (the  main)  part  of  the  PDFjam
   package.  The homepage of PDFjam is at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

SETUP

   See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

   For      further      information     and     some     examples     see
   http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

CONFIGURATION FILES

   Configuration of the PDFjam utilities involves specifying the  location
   of  pdflatex, the location of temporary files, specification of default
   page size, etc.  This is done in a block of lines near the top  of  the
   pdfjam  script;  settings  made  there  are over-ridden by any that are
   found  at  a  site-wide  configuration   file   (at   /etc/pdfjam.conf,
   /usr/share/etc/pdfjam.conf,       /usr/local/share/pdfjam.conf,      or
   /usr/local/etc/pdfjam.conf), which in turn are over-ridden by any  that
   are found in a user-defaults file at ~/.pdfjam.conf.

LIMITATIONS AND BUGS

   pdfjam  does  not  work with encrypted PDF files, and does not preserve
   hyperlinks.

   Please report bugs! See the website at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

LICENSE

   PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.

AUTHOR

   The PDFjam package is written and maintained by David Firth.

                             10 March 2010                       pdfjam(1)



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