On another list a listmate proposes to print a book in two copies side by side. The page size is 5.5 x 8.5 in. He wants to print two copies on his laser printer. He wants two impressions of page one side by side on letter paper, with two copies of page two on the reverse side etc. for 200 pages. Then he will guillotine the stack making two copies of the book. But wait, it gets worse. He is not resetting the book but has a pdf file as his source. I and others suggested the usual bit of using PSUtils to set four pages per sheet and folding them etc. but he doesn't want to get into folding. He has a guillotine and a binder. He doesn't have a folder. So, given a pdf file of a 5.5 x 8.5 book as a starting point, is there a sensible way to massage the pdf or its PS equvalent in a way to give him what he wants? He is on an Ubuntu system. He asked his question on the Scribus list. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
On 6/23/07, John R. Culleton
On another list a listmate proposes to print a book in two copies side by side. The page size is 5.5 x 8.5 in. He wants to print two copies on his laser printer. He wants two impressions of page one side by side on letter paper, with two copies of page two on the reverse side etc. for 200 pages. Then he will guillotine the stack making two copies of the book.
But wait, it gets worse. He is not resetting the book but has a pdf file as his source. I and others suggested the usual bit of using PSUtils to set four pages per sheet and folding them etc. but he doesn't want to get into folding. He has a guillotine and a binder. He doesn't have a folder.
So, given a pdf file of a 5.5 x 8.5 book as a starting point, is there a sensible way to massage the pdf or its PS equvalent in a way to give him what he wants? He is on an Ubuntu system. He asked his question on the Scribus list. If I understand well, why not something like %% %% set here papersize, pagenumbers, margins and so on %% \starttext \dorecurse{200}{% \hbox{% \externalfigure[book.pdf][page=\recurselevel]% \externalfigure[book.pdf][page=\recurselevel] }\page} \stoptext
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