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NAME

bookman - Generate a book from man pages

SYNOPSIS

bookman [ -pPxn ] [ -o outfile ] [ -a author ] [ -d date ] [ -r release ]
[ -t title ] [ -v volume ] [ -c coverfile ] [ manfile ]

DESCRIPTION

bookman compiles a set of man pages files specified by manfile arguments, or if no manfile is given, filenames are read from standard input.

OPTIONS

	-p		PDF output format.
	-P		Postscript output format.
	-x		X11 previewing, using gxditview (1).
	-n		no format, output is direct gtroff intermediate format.

-o outfile

Output in file outfile . Default is standard output.

-a author

Set the author , on the cover page.

-d date

Set the date on the cover page.

-r release

Set the book name and release on the cover page.

-t title

Set the title on the cover page.

-v volume

Specify the name of the volume .

-c coverfile

Uses the file coverfile to generate the cover page, i.e. all pages preceding the table of content. coverfile must be in groff_ms (7) format.

ENVIRONMENT

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

Unix timestamp that is used for date in header instead of current date .

EXAMPLE

To build a reference manual from section 2 man, do:

$ cd /usr/share/man/man2
$ bookman -p -t ’Unix Reference Manual’ * >book.pdf

AUTHOR

Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr>