# &app; Manual

## Introduction

&app; icon.

&app; is an utility to achieve some basic imposition on PDF documents, especially designed to work on booklets.

&app; allows:

- to transform linear documents to booklets;

- to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for handouts for example);

- to transform booklets to linear documents.

## Usage

### To Start &app;

You can start &app; in the following ways:

Applications menu

- Choose &app; .

Command line

- To start &app; from a command line, type the following command, then press Return: `bookletimposer`

### Main window

When you start &app;, the following window is displayed.

#### &app; window

Shows the&app; window.

The &app; window contains the following elements:

Input file button

- Click on the button to choose the PDF file to work on.

Conversion type

- Choose the action to perform on the selected PDF file.

  Available actions are:

  - Produce a booklet out of a linear document – to transform linear documents to booklets;

  - Produce a linear document out of a booklet – to transform booklets to linear documents.

  - Put multiple input pages on one output page – to reduce a document to put many on one sheet (for flyers for example);

Copy the same group of input pages on one output page

- To copy several times the same input page on each output page. For instance with a one page input document, you may selectPut multiple input pages on one output page in Conversion type and check this box to obtain several copies of the input page.

Layout

- Use this drop-down list to select how to dispose input pages on each output page. For example, select 2x1 to output a simple booklet.

Output paper format

- Use this drop-down list to select the paper size of the output and thus the scaling factor.

Output file

- Click on the button to open a choose where to save the converted PDF file.

Apply button

- Click on this button to launch the conversion. A window will pop up to show the progression.

Close button

- Click on this button to close &app;.

Help button

- Click on this button to display this help.

About button

- Click on this button to display informations about &app;, its version, etc.

## About &app;

To find more information about &app;, please visit the &app; Web site.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found at this link, or in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.