Cut

Custom cut pages horizontally or vertically in any way you want.
This is the low level alternative to poster and ndown
The result is packaged into a PDF file in outDir for each selected page containing an outline view followed by pages representing cut tiles.
Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu cut description inFile outDir [ outFile ] [flags]

name	description	required
p(ages)	selected pages	no

A configuration string to specify the cutlines.

parameter	description	values
horizontal	horizontal page cuts at height fraction (origin top left corner)	eg: .25
vertical	vertical page cuts at width fraction (origin top left corner)	eg: .25 .5
margin	margin / glue area in display units	>= 0.0
bgcolor	margin / glue area color value	color
border	draw content region border along set margin	on/off, true/false, t/f

Apply a horizontal page cut at 0.25 height.
Results in a PDF containing 3 PDF pages for each processed page:

$ pdfcpu cut 'hor:.25' test.pdf .
cutting test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

Apply a horizontal page cut at 0.25 height and a vertical page cut at 0.75 width.
Results in a PDF containing 5 pages for each processed page:

$ pdfcpu cut 'hor:.25, vert:.75' test.pdf .
cutting test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

The following has the same effect as: pdfcpu ndown 3 in.pdf outDir:

$ pdfcpu cut 'hor:.33 .66' inFile outDir

The following has the same effect as: pdfcpu ndown 4 in.pdf outDir:

$ pdfcpu cut 'hor:.5, ver:.5' inFile outDir