I was trying to print man pages of OpenBSD. They were in .ps format and the paper size was a4. I wanted to convert the man pages so that two a5 pages lie onto an a4 page for the sake of being printer/environment friendly. I also want to combine them as a single document.
Here are the commands
1) Making OpenBSD man file a .ps file
mandoc -Tps /usr/share/man/man4/route.4 > route.ps
2)Converting 2 a4 pages into 2 a5 pages on a single a4 page
psnup -2 -Pa4 -pa4 input.ps output.ps
This command converts 2 a4 pages into a5 ones and put them o a single a4 page. Magic isnt it?
3) Convert .ps files to
pdf
ps2pdf input.ps output.pdf
4) Combine .pdf files
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output outfile.pdf
There is also a psmerge command. But it gave me some errors. So I chose converting them into pdf and then combining way.
Ps: Here is a command for making 2 pages of a pdf file into one page:
The package is called pdjam in Ubuntu
pdfnup --nup 2x1 --outfile output.pdf input.pdf
This makes a lot of economy
