pdfnup 0.3.1

Features

• save minimized pages of a given PDF document in a new PDF document

• allow n pages per sheet, with n being square or half square

• allow customizing of layout order, both horizontally and vertically

• allow patterns for output files

• install a Python module named pdfnup.py

• install a Python command-line script named pdfnup

• provide a Unittest test suite

Examples

You can use pdfnup as a Python module e.g. like in the following interactive Python session:

>>> from pdfnup import generateNup
>>>
>>> generateNup("file.pdf", 8)
written: file-8up.pdf
>>> generateNup("file.pdf", 8, dirs="LD")
written: file-8up.pdf

In addition there is a script named pdfnup, which can be used more easily from the system command-line like this (you can see many more examples when typing pdfnup -h on the command-line):

$ pdfnup file.pdf
written: file-4up.pdf
$ pdfnup -n 8 file.pdf
written: file-8up.pdf
$ pdfnup -n 8 -l LD file.pdf
written: file-8up.pdf
$ pdfnup -n 9 /path/file[12].pdf
written: /path/file1-9up.pdf
written: /path/file2-9up.pdf
$ pdfnup -n 8 -o "%(dirname)s/foo.pdf" /path/file.pdf
written: /path/foo.pdf