It's a lot easier to read if you paste the following into your linux terminal. wget http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/counterinsurgency.pdf cat <<

It's a lot easier to read if you paste the following into your linux terminal. wget http://www.princeton.edu/~ppns/papers/counterinsurgency.pdf cat << ' EOF' | sed 's/^ //' > pdfun2up #!/usr/bin/env python import copy, sys from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader input = PdfFileReader(sys.stdin) output = PdfFileWriter() for p in [input.getPage(i) for i in range(0,input.getNumPages())]: q = copy.copy(p) (w, h) = p.mediaBox.upperRight if w > h : p.mediaBox.upperRight = (w/2, h) q.mediaBox.upperLeft = (w/2, h) output.addPage(p) output.addPage(q) else : output.addPage(p) output.write(sys.stdout) EOF chmod a+rx pdfun2up ./pdfun2up < counterinsurgency.pdf > counterinsurgency_1up.pdf xdg-open counterinsurgency_1up.pdf