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I want to print several man pages as several booklets. I need to tweak the output of the man -t command so the resulting PostScript file will have the brochurised page numbering, pages must be numerated on 'outer' edges, and 'inner' margin must be wider than 'outer'. How can I achieve this?

P.S. By "brochurised" ("booklet") numbering I mean such kind of numbering so if several printed pages are folded in half at once, the result will look like a book with proper sequental page numbering.

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There is template from which output PS file is generated. In my Gentoo it's /usr/share/groff/1.21/font/devps/prologue, so if you know postscript you could modify it. – pbm Jul 8 '11 at 15:16
That will require modification of that file every time I change my mind how to print. I am actually searching for some kind of parameters that would be propagated by man down to groff to control the output. – mbaitoff Jul 10 '11 at 6:02

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An awesome shell script written some time ago by a friend: livre.

You'll be interested in the --book and --inner options.

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It may not be the perfect answer for your question. What I did is. man -t man > foo.ps . This created a Postscript file. Which I opened in Okular (Default PDF/PS Viewer with KDE). Okular rendered foo.ps just perfectly, with page numbering. So now I can print the doc.

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How about page margins? Are they left-right or left only? – mbaitoff Sep 2 '11 at 16:44

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