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## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dviselect/1/markdown), by Chris Torek, University of Maryland. Currently maintained
       as part of TeX Live (<https://tug.org/texlive>).

## SEE ALSO
       [dvitodvi(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dvitodvi/1/markdown), [dviconcat(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dviconcat/1/markdown), [dviselect(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dviselect/1/markdown), [latex(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/latex/1/markdown), [tex(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/tex/1/markdown)
       _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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/DVIBOOK/1/markdown)