psutils ☆
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Description:
Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 3.3.14@4  |  Tracked Since: Nov 25, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Productivity
Tags: postscript pdf printing imposition utilities
Install: brew install psutils
About:
psutils is a suite of command-line tools for manipulating PostScript and PDF documents. It provides utilities to select pages, impose sheets for booklet printing, and reduce file sizes. The package is essential for pre-press workflows and managing complex document layouts.
Key Features:
  • Page selection and extraction (psselect)
  • Booklet and signature imposition (psbook, psnup)
  • Document size reduction (psresize, ps2pdf wrappers)
  • Page number calculation (psnumber)
Use Cases:
  • Creating booklets from multi-page PDF or PostScript documents
  • Selecting specific page ranges for proofing or extraction
  • Imposing pages for professional printing workflows
Alternatives:
  • Ghostscript – Ghostscript is a full interpreter/renderer; psutils focuses on page manipulation and imposition tasks.
  • pdfjam – pdfjam provides similar PDF manipulation but relies on a TeX installation; psutils is lighter and PostScript-native.
Version History
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Jan 27, 2026 8:29am 4 REVISION_ONLY eda6389b
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