Tried to install pdfjam and on my opensuse Factory installation, it needs to install 1453 packages of dependencies.
# zypper install pdfjam
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1453 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 621.6 MiB. Already cached: 0 B After the operation, additional 991.4 MiB will be used.
Anyone can help to confirm if it’s a bug or only my system ?
And what about the third option, that it’s intended behaviour? 
pdfjam requires LaTeX, i.e. texlive which does consist of about 1500 packages (most of them quite small though), or even more if you take the documentation and other things into account as well.
From the package’s description:
PDFjam depends on a working installation of (pdf)LaTex
wolfi323,
you are right, PDFjam depends on a working installation of (pdf)LaTex.
but a dependency of ~1G for a 111.5 KiB application is not what I am expecting.
Maybe I just have to give it a miss then.
On 2014-10-13 14:06, michalng wrote:
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> Tried to install pdfjam and on my opensuse Factory installation, it
> needs to install 1453 packages of dependencies.
Please post your repository list (zypper lr --details)
Do you have tex/latex already installed? They are a big load of packages:
Telcontar:~ # rpm -qa | grep texlive | wc -l
1531
Telcontar:~ #
So 1453 looks normal, if it is texlive…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
but a dependency of ~1G for a 111.5 KiB application is not what I am expecting.
Well, apparently it builds upon (PDF)latex.
That’s probably one of the reasons why it is so small…
Maybe I just have to give it a miss then.
Probably.
If you don’t use (La)TeX for anything else it might be overkill.
Maybe you should describe what you are looking for?
Probably someone can suggest a different tool suited for the job.
Btw, the PDFjam homepage states this:
An alternative set of PDF manipulation tools, which are java-based, is provided by the Multivalent project. They do much the same things as pdfjam, and quite a bit more. Hyperlinks don’t seem to be preserved there either, though, when n-upping a document.
Maybe you should describe what you are looking for?
Probably someone can suggest a different tool suited for the job.
Trying to find a tool to do n-upping a pdf document.
Suggestion or recommendations anyone ? 
On 2014-10-13 14:26, michalng wrote:
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> wolfi323,
>
> you are right, PDFjam depends on a working installation of (pdf)LaTex.
>
> but a dependency of ~1G for a 111.5 KiB application is not what I am
> expecting.
Depending on what you need, psutils might suffice.
http://software.opensuse.org/package/pdfjam
«PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts that work similarly to
the well known psutils (psmerge, psnup). They provide a simple interface
to some of the functionality of the pdfpages package for pdfLaTeX. At
present, the utilities available are pdfnup, pdfjoin, and pdf90. PDFjam
depends on a working installation of (pdf)LaTeX. - pdfnup puts multiple
document pages together on one physical page at a reduced size - pdfjoin
concatenates multiple PDF documents - pdf90 rotates the pages of PDF
documents»
PDFjam itself is small, but it requires (pdf)LaTeX, which is huge.
psutils instead is small.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Starting a new thread with some of this wording might attracht people better then a new request hidden in athread with a different title
@ hcvv,
will do.
signing off.