pdfjam - Man Page

• Merge two (or more) PDFs: pdfjam path/to/file1.pdf path/to/file2.pdf --outfile path/to/output_file.pdf
• Merge the first page of each file together: pdfjam files... 1 --outfile path/to/output_file.pdf
• Merge subranges from two PDFs: pdfjam path/to/file1.pdf 3-5,1 path/to/file2.pdf 4-6 --outfile path/to/output_file.pdf
• Sign an A4 page (adjust delta to height for other formats) with a scanned signature by overlaying them: pdfjam path/to/file.pdf path/to/signature --fitpaper true --outfile path/to/signed.pdf --nup "1x2" --delta "0 -842pt"
• Arrange the pages from the input file into a fancy 2x2 grid: pdfjam path/to/file.pdf --nup 2x2 --suffix 4up --preamble '\usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy}'
• Reverse the order of pages within each given file and concatenate them: pdfjam files... last-1 --suffix reversed

tldr.sh

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

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 https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam .

See https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam

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.

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

Please report bugs! --- either at GitHub or by email, see https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam .

pdfjam is distributed under the GNU public license.  

The pdfjam package is written and maintained by David Firth.

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