---
name: "pdfjam-slides6up"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "texlive-extra-utils"
version: "2018.20190227-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pdfjam-slides6up"
---

# pdfjam-slides6up(1)

put presentation slides onto 6-up pages

## NAME

pdfjam-slides6up - put presentation slides onto 6-up pages

## SYNOPSIS

pdfjam-slides6up \[--pagenumbering SWITCH\] \[OPTION \[OPTION\] ...\] \[SRC \[PAGESPEC\] \[SRC \[PAGESPEC\]\] ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

pdfjam-slides6up converts PDF files whose pages are presentation slides (with 4:3 aspect ratio) into 6-up versions suitable for making a handout  (for example).  By default, the 6-up pages do not themselves have page numbers.

To put page numbers on the output pages, use either '--pagenumbering true' or, for example, '--pagenumbering 3.0cm' to place the page numbers a bit lower on the page than the default position.  The value of 'SWITCH' must be either 'true', 'false' or a dimension that can be used by LateX. (To be precise, it's the value of the 'footskip' dimension in LaTeX; by default, pdfjam-slides6up sets that as 2.7cm, which works pretty well in  conjunction with both '--paper a4paper' and '--paper letterpaper'.)

If no source PDF file ('SRC') is specified, input is from /dev/stdin. If 'PAGESPEC' is omitted, all pages are processed.

Source files are processed sequentially into a single output unless the '--batch' option is used, in which case they are processed  separately.

pdfjam-slides6up is a simple wrapper for pdfjam, which provides a front end to  many of the capabilities of the pdfpages package for pdflatex.  A working installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is required.

pdfjam-slides6up operates on one or more PDF files, and (either with  the '--batch' option or with '--outfile DIR' where 'DIR' is a directory) the  resulting files have the suffix '-6up' applied to their names by default.  To change the suffix, use the '--suffix' option, for example

**pdfjam-slides6up --suffix '2x3' --batch myslides1.pdf myslides2.pdf**

will result in files named 'myslides1-2x3.pdf' and 'myslides2-2x3.pdf'.

By default a narrow line frame is printed around every slide.  This can be  turned off if required by using the option '--frame false'.

pdfjam-slides6up is part of the "PDFjam" package of tools, whose homepage is at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam .

## SETUP

See http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

## USAGE

For the other available options and  site/user defaults, see the output of

**pdfjam --help**

For further information and some examples see  http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam .

## LIMITATIONS AND BUGS

pdfjam-slides6up does not work with encrypted PDF files, and does not  preserve hyperlinks.

Please report bugs! See the website at http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam .

## LICENSE

PDFjam is distributed under the GNU public license.

## SEE ALSO

[pdfjam(1)](/pdfjam/1.md) [pdfjam-slides3up(1)](/pdfjam-slides3up/1.md) .

## AUTHOR

pdfjam-slides6up is written and maintained by David Firth as part of the PDFjam package.