Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line with pdfxup
Install the texlive-extra-utils package:
$ sudo apt install texlive-extra-utils
then run:
$ pdfxup -x 2 -o output.pdf input.pdf
Thanks to metani (Trisquel’s forum) for telling me about pdfxup.
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