[Scribus] PDF version of psutils?

[Clayborne Arevalo]

On 1/10/07, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> wrote:
> Clayborne Arevalo wrote:
> > I'm looking for a pdf manipulation tool that runs on Unix or GnuOS and
> > does what psutils does. In particular I'm looking for the abilities to
> > select (psselect), sort in signature order (psbook) and impose the
> > pages on a large sheet of paper (psnup). Is there such a program?
> >
> > Preferably the program should be command-line or have command-line
> > capabilities (so it can be scripted). I've looked into pdftk and it
> > seems to be missing the key ability to impose multiple pages on a
> > single sheet.
>
> pdfjam? It contains pdfnup. How about pdftk + pdfjam?

pdfjam appears to be incapable of handling  large-sized paper
(e.g. a3).  Is there some magic option I need to pass to pdfjam
or my LaTeX installation?