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DVIBOOK(1)                             General Commands Manual                            DVIBOOK(1)



NAME
       dvibook - rearrange pages in DVI file into signatures

SYNOPSIS
       dvibook [ -q ] [ -s<num> ] [ -r ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       Dvibook  rearranges  pages  from  a DVI file produced by TeX into ``signatures'' for printing
       books or booklets, creating a new DVI file usable by any of the TeX conversion programs.

       The -s option selects the size of signature which will be used. The  signature  size  is  the
       number  of sides which will be folded and bound together; the number given should be a multi‐
       ple of four. The default is to use one signature for the whole file. Extra blank  sides  will
       be added if the file does not contain a multiple of four pages.

       By  default,  dvibook rearranges the pages into left-hand side binding signatures; the -r op‐
       tion switches to right-hand side binding signatures. This might be useful for  pTeX  vertical
       writing (tate-kumi) documents.

       Dvibook  normally  prints  the page numbers of the pages rearranged; the -q option suppresses
       this.

AUTHOR
       Angus Duggan, from dviselect(1), by Chris Torek, University of Maryland. Currently maintained
       as part of TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive).

SEE ALSO
       dvitodvi(1), dviconcat(1), dviselect(1), latex(1), tex(1)
       MC-TeX User's Guide

BUGS
       Dvibook does not adjust the parameters in the postamble; however, since these values are nor‐
       mally used only to size certain structures in the output conversion programs, and the parame‐
       ters never need to be adjusted upward, this has not proven to be a problem.



TeX Live                                  8 September 2020                                DVIBOOK(1)