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These scripts are explicitly **not supported**. Any and all issues
reported for these scripts, via GitHub, will simply be left open.
(Unless, of course, someone else decides to support the scripts in
a repository of their own.) I make the scripts available
here just in case someone might find them useful. (If somebody else wants to
a repository of their own.)

I make the scripts available
here just in case someone might find them useful.

If somebody else wants to
improve and maintain these scripts as a separate package for distribution in
future, then that's fine by me of course!) Licensed under GPL: see the file
future, then that's fine by me of course! (and it would be warmly welcomed)

Licensed under GPL: see the file
COPYING for details. These scripts are provided with
**absolutely no warranty of fitness for any purpose whatsoever**.

The wrapper scripts are:
**The wrapper scripts are:**

- `pdfnup`, `pdfpun`
- `pdfjoin`
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- `pdfjam-slides3up`, `pdfjam-slides6up`

They all are intended as _example_ templates of scripts that end-users can make,
in order to apply `pdfjam` conveniently on some specific tasks.
in order to apply `pdfjam` conveniently on their specific tasks.

I find that I now cannot support these 'wrapper' scripts as part of the **pdfjam**
package --- mainly because what people want from them seems to vary so much. This
results in quite a lot of questions and bug reports or feature requests, which
most often I don't know how to handle. I don't actually use most of
these wrapper scripts myself --- I typically prefer to construct a suitable call to
`pdfjam` directly. (An exception to that is that I _do_ often use
`pdfjam` directly.

(An exception to that is that I _do_ often use
`pdfjam-slides3up` and `pdfjam-slides6up`; but even there I have very specific
personal requirements, for example 4:3-shaped slides on A4 paper.)

The `pdfjam` script itself, and its associated documentation, are still
The `pdfjam` script itself and its associated documentation are still
supported by me --- for the foreseeable future.

_David Firth_, November 2019
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