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PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple interface to much of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX.

Prerequisites

pdftex

cd /extra/src wget http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1292/pdftex-1.40.10.tar.bz2 tar -jxf pdftex-1.40.10.tar.bz2 cd pdftex-1.40.10

Attempt to build it

./build-pdftex.sh
TeX Live

cd /extra/src wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz tar zxf install-tl-unx.tar.gz cd install-tl-20110415

Run the installer:

./install-tl

Installation

cd /extra/src
wget http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/software/pdfjam/pdfjam_latest.tgz 
tar zxf pdfjam_latest.tgz
cd pdfjam

Copy the config file into place:

cp pdfjam.conf /usr/local/etc/pdfjam.conf

Edit /usr/local/etc/pdfjam.conf and add the location of the pdflatex binary:

pdflatex='/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux/pdflatex'

Usage

pdfjam --nup 2x1 --suffix 2up --papersize '{23in,22.5in}' \
--outfile ./CJ_2011-04-15_A-01-16.pdf \
../pages/CJ_2011-04-15_A-01.pdf ../pages/CJ_2011-04-15_A-16.pdf

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