Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

[Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On 12/14/05, H. S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up
> PDFs using psnup but I am not able to.

Off hand, I'd probably use something like:

#### BEGIN MAKEFILE ####
SRCS := $(filter-out %-4up.pdf,$(wildcard *.pdf))
DESTS := $(patsubst %.pdf,%-4up.pdf,$(SRCS))

default : $(DESTS)

%.ps : %.pdf
        acroread -toPostScript $<

%-4up.ps  : %.ps
        psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 $< > $@

%-4up.pdf  : %-4up.ps
        ps2pdf $<

#### END MAKEFILE ####

Remember to change the spaces to tabs for the action lines.  Gmail
won't let me enter a tab by hand.  There's a circular dependency, but
it doesn't seem to cause problems.  Since you have tighter naming
rules, you can probably change

%.ps : %.pdf

to

%N.ps : %N.pdf

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