mlouhivu/jam-it

jam-it

Use pdfjam to jam together PDF slides into lecture handouts.

Layout of the output pages can be defined in the script (default: 2x4 grid) and the input files are defined using an index file (see below for syntax).

Usage

vi index
bash jam-it.sh

Syntax of the index file

• Lines starting with # will be ignored as comments.
• Any word is considered a filename.
• Filenames that start with @ start a new section.
• Filenames that start with @ are also assumed to be in the correct output format (A4) and will be used as-is.
• Any other file will be first processed into the desired layout (edit the script, if needed).
• All files are jammed together in order.

Note: First "normal" file in a section is assumed to have a title slide for the section as the first page, which will be dropped. So, use e.g. @section-title.pdf to denote the start of a section and to give a A4 title page for the section.

Example

$ cat index

# List of PDFs to jam together
#  an index file for jam-it.sh (https://github.com/mlouhivu/jam-it)

@title-course.pdf

@title-openacc-intro.pdf
01-GPU-intro.pdf
02-OpenACC-intro.pdf
03-OpenACC-data.pdf

@title-profiling.pdf
04-Profiling-GPUs.pdf
06-Multiple-GPUs.pdf

$ bash jam-it.sh