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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.

EXAMPLE

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

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

SEE ALSO

       man(1),   mandoc(7),   groff_ms(7),   groff(1),   troff(1),   grops(1),
       gxditview(1), ps2pdf(1).

AUTHOR

       Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr>