octalpdf

this is just a simple program i mocked up in an afternoon to help me make little booklets from a pdf

it works by printing each page a certain way so you fold a piece of paper giving 8 pages on a single piece of paper that can be read like a book

proof

pdf made by the program

pdf printed out, folded, cut on edges, and stapled

installation

adding to ~/.local/bin

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notwithering/octalpdf/refs/heads/main/octalpdf.sh > ~/.local/bin/octalpdf
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/octalpdf

prerequisites

• awk
• ghostscript
• grep
• pdfjam (of texlive-core)
• pdftk

pacman --needed -S awk ghostscript grep texlive-core pdftk