I'm looking for a pdf manipulation tool that runs on Unix or GnuOS and does what psutils does. In particular I'm looking for the abilities to select (psselect), sort in signature order (psbook) and impose the pages on a large sheet of paper (psnup). Is there such a program?
Preferably the program should be command-line or have command-line capabilities (so it can be scripted). I've looked into pdftk and it seems to be missing the key ability to impose multiple pages on a single sheet. Side problem: My present system of saving to plain PostScript, feeding the PS to psutils, then converting back to PDF produces a PDF file where the extended Latin characters, such as the n with tilde (U+00F1) or e with acute (U+00E9), are replaced by boxes. Interestingly, however, the extended punctuation like the emdash and the curly quotes are retained
